Published April 23, 2026 • Jan Spacek
IMPRESS: A Planetary Penetrator Network for Astrobiology, Prospecting, and Exploration of Mars – preprint
Preprint release: IMPRESS: A Planetary Penetrator Network for Astrobiology, Prospecting, and Exploration of Mars.
This entry provides the current manuscript, revised August 2, 2026 and now including figures, along with the supplementary tables revised July 9, 2026.
About the author
Jan Spacek
Jan has worked in the field of electrochemistry of modified and natural DNA at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Central European Institute of Technology. He has also visited the Ege University (Izmir), the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (Aarhus), the Department of NanoEngineering at UCSD, and the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (Alachua). He presently develops life detection devices, from coronavirus to Venusians and Martians, at the Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC. Outside of science, Jan bicycled around the Baltic Sea and across the Australian continent, 7500 kilometers in all. Jan earned a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Ph.D. in Genomics and Proteomics (both at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic).
Preprint revised August 2, 2026; supplementary material revised July 9, 2026 and hosted by IMPRESS.