  Exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (associated with the
cosmological constant) seem to dominate in the Universe. Thus its direct
detection is central to particle physics and cosmology. Supersymmetry provides
a natural dark matter candidate, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP).
Furtheremore from the knowlegde of the density and velocity distribution of the
LSP, the quark substructure of the nucleon and the nuclear structure (form
factor and/or spin response function), one is able to evaluate the event rate
for LSP-nucleus elastic scattering. The thus obtained event rates are, however,
very low. So it is imperative to exploit the modulation effect, i.e. the
dependence of the event rate on the Earth's motion and the directional
signature, i.e. the dependence of the rate on the direction of the recoiling
nucleus. In this paper we study such experimental signatures employng a
supersymmetric model with universal boundary conditions at large tangent beta.
