We’re all extremely grateful to the Australian Research Council for awarding the Ferrari lab with an ARC Discovery grant for 2024! It’ll support our project where, in collaboration with Dr Christopher McKay of the NASA Ames Research Centre and Prof. Don Cowan of the University of Praetoria, we’ll be aiming to define the biological boundaries to sustain extant life on Mars.
For some background info about the importance of this project and NASA’s Icebreaker Life mission (Spearheaded by Dr. Christopher McKay), click here to read an article Belinda wrote for The Conversation earlier this year.