A Space— Astrobiologic—Laboratory without Borders
Paola Molina Sevilla and José Guadalupe de la Rosa Canales
Dr. Rafael Navarro González founded
the Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry
and Planetary Studies (LQPyEP) at
the Institute of Nuclear Sciences
(ICN), with the support of
UNAM and the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB). The laboratory had equipment and
analytic instruments with the latest technology,
with which it was possible to prepare gas mixtures
that would emulate the atmosphere of any planet
or satellite in our Solar System. It also had the
necessary instrumentation for the analysis of the
gas components generated when said simulated
atmospheres are subjected to energy sources that