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Now showing: Year 2007 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 7.1

Roadmap Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth

Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials

Abiotic Experiments & Hydrocarbon Yielding Water/Mineral Reactions

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

Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

Cosmic Ice Laboratory

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

Design and Assembly of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of concentration and isotopic composition of methane in gases

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1, 7.2

Evolution of abiotic environments to ecosystems

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere (Ohmoto)

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1

Examination of the Microbial Diversity Found in Ice Cores (Brenchley)

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Induced Vibronic Circular Dichroism in Ice Bioclathrates as a Potential Remotely Observable Biosignature

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

Laser mass spectrometry for planetary analog and in situ chemical analyses

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

Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

Phosphorus and Sulfur in the Origin of Life

TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1

Planetary Biology, Evolution, and Intelligence

TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

Project 3. Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

Project 4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1

Project 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Project 7. Astrobiotechnology

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

Retentostat Studies of Subsurface Sulfate Reducing Bacterium

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Rise of Oxygen, Modern Analogs for Anoxic Oceans, and Effect of early life on soil development

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Saline Lakes and Gypsum Dunes in the Rio Grande Rift System as Analogues for Sulfate Deposits on Mars

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

Search for Biomarker Gases on Mars

TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

Simulating Preservation of Amino Acids and Peptides in Evaporitic Sulfate Deposits on the Surface of Mars

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 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

Summary of Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

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

Survival capability of a cold-loving microbe in a Mars simulation chamber

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

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1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets

1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets

2.1 Mars exploration

2.2 Outer Solar System exploration

3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts

3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules

3.3 Origins of energy transduction

3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems

4.1 Earth's early biosphere

4.2 Foundations of complex life

5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms

5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities

5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments

6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems

6.2 Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth

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7.2 Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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Carnegie Institution of Washington

Indiana University, Bloomington

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Pennsylvania State University

SETI Institute

University of Arizona

University of California, Berkeley

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Hawaii

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)