Table 4.

Comparison of MBLDP-R with earlier life detection protocols.

Developed life detection protocols	Base theory of life detection	Soil sample collection subsystem	On-board analysis	Time efficiency	Evaluation using empirical samples	Resource/cost efficiency
(Mojarro et al. 2017)18	Nucleic Acid	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
(Goordial et al. 2017)8	Nucleic Acid	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
(Kiflen et al. 2020)9	Nucleic Acid	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
(Mora et al. 2020)10	Amino acid	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
MBLDP-R	Multiple Biomolecule Based	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes