Can BepiColombo Detect Microbial Life on Mercury?

[Astrodome123]

TL;DR

Life on Mercury

Will the 2025 BepiColumbo mission be able to detect any indications of potential past or current microbial life on Mercury?

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF.

What have you found in your researching so far? Is that in the mission objectives?

If it is in the mission objectives, what kind of microbial life would be able to survive in those temperatures?

 

[Vanadium 50]

If we knew what a mission is going to find before it gets there, we wouldn't need to launch the missiom, would we?

That said, what do you think might be found that was not found by MESSENER or the three flybys that have already occurred?