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Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.1
Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
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A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae
Abiotic Nitrogen Cycling
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
Biological potential of Mars
Biomimetic Cluster Synthesis: Bridging the Structure and Reactivity of Biotic and Abiotic Iron-Sulfur Motifs
Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars
Computational Chemical Modeling the Link Between Structure and Reactivity of Iron-Sulfur Motifs
Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope
Formation of Molecular Hydrogen via Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Hydrocarbon Ices in the Interstellar Medium
Formation of Nitrogenated Aromatics in the Interstellar Medium
Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1
Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres
Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons
Mechanistical Studies on the Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Unusual Carbon Oxide in Solar System Ices
Modeling grain surface reaction pathways for large organic molecules
Module 1: The Building Blocks of Life
Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems
Molecular Beam Studies of Nitrogen Reactions on Iron-Sulfur Surfaces
Molecular Deuteration on grain surfaces
Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices
Origin and Evolution of Organics
Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems
Origin of Life and Catalysis - Philosophical Considerations
Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
Prebiotic Organics from Space
Probing the Structure and Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Iron-Sulfur Minerals
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars
Structure, Function, and Biosynthesis of the Complex Iron-Sulfur Clusters at the Active Sites of Nitrogenases and Hydrogenases
Sulfur and Phosphorus Cosmochemistry: Implications
The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments
Training for Oxygen: Peroxy in Rocks, Early Life and the Evolution of the Atmosphere
Ultra-violet processing of ices in the Rosette Nebula
Unveiling the evolution and interplay of ice and gas in quiescent clouds
X-ray emission from an intermediate-mass young star, protostar binary system and star-forming regions
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