Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: All projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 2.2

  2. Roadmap Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System

    Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

    7. Astrobiotechnology

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    A search for Main Belt Comets in Pan-STARRS 1

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    A spectroscopically unique Main Belt asteroid: 10537 (1991 RY16)

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Amorphization of Crystalline Water Ice in the Solar System

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Chemistry of the NH3/H2O system

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Earthbound microbial and geological robotic based observations for Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Ice on Main Belt Comets

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Mechanistical Studies on the Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Unusual Carbon Oxide in Solar System Ices

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1

    Observations and Models of comet 17P/Holmes

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Planetary Habitability

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

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

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Surface Processes and Surface-Subsurface Transport on Europa

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    The Main Belt distribution of basaltic asteroids

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    The Size Distribution of Small KBOs

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2