"Now that an Earth-like planet has been found orbiting Gilese 581, what plans does NASA have to explore the possibilities of life on this planet?"
Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objectives 1.1, 6.2
Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe
Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
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Landforms made by groundwater discharge on Mars and Earth
1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems
2. Extraterrestrial Materials: Origin and Evolution of Organic Matter and Water in the Solar System
A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle
A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae
Abiotic Nitrogen Cycling
Assessing the likelihood of supernova impact of protoplanetary disks
Bally project
Chemical Models of Nebular Processes
Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars
Dynamical Evolution of Astroid Belt and the Parent Bodies of Iron Meteorites
Early oceans on Mars
Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets
Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Brantley)
Evolution of the interior and its consequences for water on Mars
Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches
Fingerprinting Late Additions to the Earth and Moon via the Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Lunar Impact Melt Rocks
Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters
Formation and the Prospects of the Detection of Habitable Planets in Extreme Planetary Systems
Formation of Planetesimals in a Dynamically Evolving Nebula
Habitable Planets
Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres
Isotopic fingerprints of past life and surface conditions on Mars
Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons
Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate
Modeling Early Earth Environments
Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems
Module 3: Nature of Planetary Systems
Origin and Activation Mechanism of Main Belt Comets
Origin and Evolution of Organics
Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems
Origin of Irregular Satellites
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
Planetary Habitability
Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths
Planetary-Scale Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Nitrogen Cycle
Prebiotic Organics from Space
PSARC (Sigurdsson report)
Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere
Star and Planet Formation
Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth
The delivery of short-lived radionucleides to the solar system
The High Lakes Project (HLP)
Training for Oxygen: Peroxy in Rocks, Early Life and the Evolution of the Atmosphere
Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)
VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models
VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool
Roadmap Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
5. Life in Extreme Environments
7. Astrobiotechnology
Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane
Environmental genomics reveals a single species ecosystem deep within the Earth.
Examination of the Microbial Diversity Found in Ice Cores (Brenchley)
Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches
Genome-Genome Integration: Symbiosis, genetic assimilation, and evolutionary innovation
Genomics of sulfidic cave extremophiles (Supplement to NNA04CC06A)
Icelandic subglacial lakes
Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces
Interplanetary Pioneers
Mars Forward Contamination Studies Utilizing a Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber
Microbial Communities and Activities in the Deep Marine Subsurface
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism
Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere
The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments
The High Lakes Project (HLP)
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis
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