Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 1.2

  2. Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe

    Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets

    Abiotic Nitrogen Cycling

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

    Astronomical Observations of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Earth as an Extrasolar Planet

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.3, 6.2, 7.2

    Extrasolar Planets

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Habitable Planets

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.3

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

    Module 3: Nature of Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    NEWBORN BINARIES

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Planetary Habitability

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.2

    PSARC (Sigurdsson report)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Spectropolarimetric studies of stars with hot jupiters

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The effect of lunar-like satellites on the orbital infrared lightcurves of Earth-analog planets

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    THE VYSOS PROJECT

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    X-ray- and UV-bright low-mass stars in the solar neighborhood

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2