Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2003 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.1

  2. Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

    Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts

    A New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Archean Biosignatures

    TEAM: JSC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.4, 4.1

    Benner - Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

    TEAM: SRI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Biogeochemistry of Earth's Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Chemical Building Blocks

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Cosmochemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites

    TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Delivery of organic materials to planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 7.2

    Delivery of Organics to Earth and Earthlike Planets - Brownlee and Kress

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Environment of Prebiotic Earth and the Origin of Life: Experimental Approach - Schoonen

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2

    Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.2

    Magnetic Biosignatures

    TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

    New Technique Development and Application

    TEAM: JSC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Organic and sulfur hazes in the Archean atmosphere: Climatic and photochemical consequences.

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    Organic Biosignatures

    TEAM: JSC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

    Organic Synthesis at High Temperature

    TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

    Oxidation of Organic Carbon Under High Pressure Hydrothermal Processing

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Re-Os study of hydrothermal processes in ordinary chondrites

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Studies of Hydrogen Cyanide Chemistry

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2

    Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1

    Titan

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1