title: Nearly Forty Years after Viking: Are We Ready for a New Life-Detection Mission?
authors.affiliation: 1 Washington State University , Pullman, Washington, USA, and Technical University Berlin, Germany .
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schulze-Makuch
authors.affiliation: 2 East Carolina University , Greenville, North Carolina, USA .
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Rummel
authors.affiliation: 3 Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution , Gainesville, Florida, USA .
authors.forename: Steven A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Benner
authors.affiliation: 4 Beyond Center of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona, USA .
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain .
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Parro
authors.affiliation: 6 Tufts University , Medford, Massachusetts, USA, and Imperial College London, UK .
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kounaves
mesh_terms: D018559:Exobiology; D019369:Life; D018535:Mars