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"What type of scientific proof is there that Earth is the only location in the universe that life has ever existed on?"
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University of Colorado, Boulder
Executive Summary
Project Reports
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ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1A Novel Route to New, Simpler, Self-aminoacylating Ribozymes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:Bally project
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1Biological potential of Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2DDF: Geomicrobiology of a Unique Ice-Sulfur Spring Ecosystem in the High Arctic
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.2Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2Star and Planet Formation
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1EPO Reports
Colorado Space Science Teachers Summit
Public Talks, etc.
Minority Girls at Five Points
Project Reports
Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective
- Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets (5 reports)
- Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets (2 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 (5 reports)
- Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules (3 reports)
- Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction (2 reports)
- Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems (1 reports)
- Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere (4 reports)
- Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life (4 reports)
- Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms (4 reports)
- Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities (6 reports)
- Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments (5 reports)
- Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems (3 reports)
- Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth (2 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 (4 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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