Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 4.3

  2. Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment

    Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere

    Carbonate Lithologies on Devon Island, Canada

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3

    Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 7.2

    Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.3, 6.2, 7.2

    FMARS Long Duration Mission: a simulation of manned Mars exploration in an analogue environment, Devon Island, Canada

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

    Habitable Planets

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.3

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.3

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

    Sulfur and Phosphorus Cosmochemistry: Implications

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1

    The delivery of short-lived radionucleides to the solar system

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3

    The High Lakes Project (HLP)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1