title: The search for life on Earth and other planets.
abstract: As the NASA rover Curiosity approaches Mars on its quest to look for signs of past or present life there and sophisticated instruments like the space telescopes Kepler and CoRoT keep discovering additional, more Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars, science faces the question of how to spot life on other planets. Even here on Earth biotopes remain to be discovered and explored.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D018534:Earth, Planet; D004777:Environment; D018559:Exobiology; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment / Q000737:chemistry; D019369:Life; D018535:Mars; D016083:Planets