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NASA Ames Research Center
Executive Summary
Linking Our Origins to Our Future
Project Reports
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2Early Metabolic Pathways
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3Habitable Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.3Hindcasting Ecosystems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1Interplanetary Pioneers
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 6.2Prebiotic Organics from Space
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2EPO Reports
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Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective
- Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets (2 reports)
- Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets (1 reports)
- Objective 2.1: Mars exploration (3 reports)
- Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration (1 reports)
- Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts (1 reports)
- Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules (1 reports)
- Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems (2 reports)
- Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere (2 reports)
- Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere (2 reports)
- Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms (1 reports)
- Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities (1 reports)
- Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments (2 reports)
- Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems (2 reports)
- Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth (1 reports)
- Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials (2 reports)
- Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems (2 reports)
Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe
Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System
Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment
Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth
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