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  1. Content with the tag: “exobiology

  2. A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

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

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Acquisition and Installation of a new Cameca ims 1280 ion microprobe

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    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

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

    Application of U-tube and fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor to characterize the chemical and physical properties of a deep permafrost and sub-permafrost environment at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada.

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Astrobiology Sample Analysis Program (ASAP)

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    Biological potential of Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    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

    Composition of Parent Volatiles in Comets: Oxidized Carbon

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    Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Early Metabolic Pathways

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 3

    Early Metabolic Pathways

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4

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

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Formation of Planetesimals in a Dynamically Evolving Nebula

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Genes that regulate photosymbiotic relationships

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2

    Habitable Planets

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.3

    Icelandic subglacial lakes

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Interplanetary Pioneers

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 6.2

    Microbial Communities and Activities in the Deep Marine Subsurface

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Modeling grain surface reaction pathways for large organic molecules

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    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

    Origin of Irregular Satellites

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Protist diversity in extreme environments

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6, 7

    Recovery of comet 85P/Boethin for the Deep Impact Extended Mission

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

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

    Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Societal and Philosophical Aspects of Astrobiology

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 18

    Studies in Planetary Formation and Evolution

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11, 12, 8, 9

    Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 11, 8, 9

    The Main Belt distribution of basaltic asteroids

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    THE VYSOS PROJECT

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Ultra-violet processing of ices in the Rosette Nebula

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1
  3. NASA-Supported Researcher Shares in Nobel Prize


    Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is among a group of three researchers who have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Szostak, who shares this year’s prestigious scientific award with Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is also a principal investigator with NASA’s Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. The award was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on...

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    Source: [HHMI]

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  4. Machine Evolution


    Many scientists believe that life started out as nothing more than strands of proto-genetic material known as RNA. A new device automates studies of RNA evolution and could lend insights into the origin of life on Earth.

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    Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]

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