Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    PI Michael Mumma
    Members 26 (See)
    Active Dates 11/2003 - 10/2008
    Team Website http://astrobiology.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    Executive Summary

    Project Reports

    A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Accomplishments of Graduate Student Yana Radeva

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Astrobiology Sample Analysis Program (ASAP)

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Breakdown of methane due to electric discharge: A Laboratory Investigation with Relevance to Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1

    Chemical Models of Nebular Processes

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Circumstellar Disk Evolution and Habitable Planet Formation

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Composition of Parent Volatiles in Comets: Oxidized Carbon

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Extrasolar Planets

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Fingerprinting Late Additions to the Earth and Moon via the Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Lunar Impact Melt Rocks

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Studies of solid-state acetylene in space and in the laboratory

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    X-ray emission from an intermediate-mass young star, protostar binary system and star-forming regions

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    EPO Reports

    no reports submitted

    Project Reports

    Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective