Should We Invest in Martian Brine Research to Reduce Mars Exploration Costs?

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Sub-liquid and Atmospheric Measurement (SAM) instrument to autonomously monitor the biochemistry of natural aquatic ecosystems

Open Access via the ACS Agreement Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - PID2019-104205GB-C21; University of Aberdeen - SF10237-59 Funding This development work of the SAM instrument was undertaken with the help of the University of Aberdeen’s Round 3 of the “Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Activities” (SF10237–59) in 2021/22 and Dr. Allan and Norma Young Foundation “Lab starting grant” (CF95052-11). M.-P.Z. was supported by grant PID2019-104205GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/v10.13039/501100011033. Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Allan and Norma Young Foundation. They thank and recognize the collaboration with the STFC-funded Boulby Underground Laboratory in Boulby Mine, North Yorkshire, UK, for providing access to deploy the SAM instrument in the brine pool at their facility. They also thank collaborators Dr. Deepak Kumaresan from Queen’s University Belfast and Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu and Catalina Haidau from ″Emil Racovita″ Institute of Speleology, for the campaign to the sulfidic lake and Movile Cave in Mangalia, Romania, in October 2022 and for further testing and deployment of the SAM instrument.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

PACKMAN – A portable instrument to investigate space weather

Acknowledgements The authors of the paper would like to acknowledge the Dark Matter Research facility, Boulby Mine, UK Center for Astrobiology, Zero2Infinity, Esrange and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) for their support to this collaborative initiative. The results presented in this paper have been compared with data collected at magnetic observatories. We thank the British Geological Survey for the open-access data from the magnetic observatories and GFZ Postdam for the Kp index data. The authors of the paper would also like to thank Miracle Israel Nazarious for his help with graphs. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia ‘‘María de Maeztu”- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-104205GB-C21)Peer reviewedPublisher PD

PRessure Optimized PowEred Respirator (PROPER) : a miniaturized wearable cleanroom and biosafety system for aerially transmitted viral infections such as COVID-19

Acknowledgements: The authors of the paper would like to acknowledge Andreas Nilsson from Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden, for his support in the procurement of components. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project (ref. PID2019-104205GB-C21).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

An Optimized Active Sampling Procedure for Aerobiological DNA Studies

Funding The project was funded by the ‘Internal funding to Pump-prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Activities’ from the University of Aberdeen granted to T.M. J.B.R. is supported by QUADRAT NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, UKRI. M.-P.Z. was supported by grant PID2019-104205GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Acknowledgments The paper’s authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Allan and Norma Young Foundation. The paper’s authors would like to acknowledge the Microscopy and Histology Core Facility at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, for the sample preparation and training for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Development of a wind retrieval method for low-speed low-pressure flows for ExoMars

Acknowledgements: The HABIT FM and EQM were manufactured by Omnisys Instruments AB, Sweden, in cooperation with the Luleå University of Technology (LTU). The HABIT project was funded by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). We thank the ExoMars project team, European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, Space Research Institute (IKI) and Omnisys Instruments AB for their hard work on the ExoMars 2022 mission. We acknowledge the Luleå University of Technology, the Wallenberg Foundation and the Kempe Foundation for support of the Mars research activities. ASS acknowledges the support of the LTU Graduate School of Space Technology. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”-Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). We acknowledge the support of Mr. Jens Jacob Iversen and Dr. Jonathan P. Merrison from the Aarhus Wind Tunnel of the Aarhus University (Denmark).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Subsurface robotic exploration for geomorphology, astrobiology and mining during MINAR6 campaign, Boulby Mine, UK: : part II (Results and Discussion)

Acknowledgement. The authors of this paper would like to thank Kempe Foundation for its generous funding support to develop KORE, the workshop at the Teknikens Hus, Luleå, for their invaluable and unconditional support in helping with the fabrication of the KORE components and the organizers of the MINAR campaign comprising the UK Centre of Astrobiology, ICL Boulby Mine and STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory, UK. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’- Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC)Peer reviewedPostprin

Fully Interactive and Refined Resolution Simulations of the Martian Dust Cycle by the MarsWRF Model

Acknowledgments: First of all, our warmest thanks go to the PlanetWRF development team for providing the MarsWRF model free of charge to us and their proactive attitude in general. We thank Andy Heaps, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK, for his helpful advice regarding the data visualization using cf‐Python. We would also like to thank Michael Mischna, Alexandre Kling, and the Associate Editor Claire Newman for their several detailed and insightful comments and suggestions that helped to significantly improve the quality of the paper. M. P. Z. acknowledges the partial support by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) project MDM‐2017‐0737 Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC‐INTA), Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu. Internally, we would like to express our greatest thanks to the High‐Performance Computing, Division of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University. Our particular thanks go to Asma AlNeyadi, Anil Thomas, and Nithin Damodaran for their intensive and continuous support in technically demanding questions. Also, we would like to thank the Digitization Unit, UAEU Libraries, for the digitization of auxiliary data on the observational record of the atmospheric T15 temperature and vertical weighting functions of Viking/IRTM. In addition, we thank UAEU Libraries for their assistance in making supporting data of this article available online. In particular, we are grateful to Digitization Technician Shireen M. Wolied, Fadl M. Musa/Digital Library Service, and Student Muhammad Abdul Rahim Sami Ullah. Funding Information: United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Grant Number: 21R033‐NSS Center 7‐2017 Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). Grant Number: MDM‐2017‐0737Peer reviewedPublisher PD

SpaceQ chamber : The environment simulator for planetary exploration

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ATMO-Vent : an adapted breathing atmosphere for COVID-19 patients

Acknowledgements: The authors of the paper would like to acknowledge Andreas Nilsson from Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden, for his support in procurement and EMC testing of the ATMO-Vent. The authors would also like to thank Luleå University of Technology for access to facilities during the development of ATMO-Vent. The authors would like to acknowledge Teknikens Hus for their support in machining operations. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”- Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC).Peer reviewedPublisher PD