Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2003 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 1.1

  2. Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe

    Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets

    A Study of Marine and Terrestrial Stable Isotopic Geochemistry During the End-Permian and End-Triassic Mass Extinction Events

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Benner - Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

    TEAM: SRI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Biogeochemistry of Earth's Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Biological Consequences of Impacts

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 6.2

    Celestial Influences on Planetary Environments

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.3, 6.1

    Chasing water on Mars: A geochemical approach using martian meteorites

    TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1

    Chemical Building Blocks

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

    Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.2

    Climate Model For Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Cosmochemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites

    TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Delivery of organic materials to planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 7.2

    Delivery of Organics to Earth and Earthlike Planets - Brownlee and Kress

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Dynamics of comets, asteroids, and planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2, 4.3

    Europa Focus Group

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2

    Evolution of atmospheric O2, climate, and biosphere - Ohmoto

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Exploration for Life in the Solar System

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Exploring the Living Universe; Origin, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Solar System (Europa)

    TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2

    Extra Solar Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Galactic Chemical Evolution and Extrasolar Planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Habitability of Planetary Bodies

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3

    Habitable Planets

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

    Impact Frustration and Subsequent Generation of Biologically Tenable Climates on Earth and Mars

    TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.3, 6.2

    Magnetic Biosignatures

    TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Modeling early atmospheric composition and climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Oxidation of Organic Carbon Under High Pressure Hydrothermal Processing

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Re-Os study of hydrothermal processes in ordinary chondrites

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Spectroscopic Databases to Support Extrasolar Planet Modeling

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 7.2

    Studies in Planetary Formation and Evolution

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 7.2

    Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Surface Hydrology and Microbial Ecology for Global Semi-Arid Ecosystems

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 6.1

    The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2

    The Formation of Planets Around Young Stars

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution <BR>Subproject: Carbon Cycle and Climate Dyanamics of Mars

    TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1

    The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: The Proterozoic Oxidiation of the Earth's Surface<BR>

    TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1

    The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Subproject: Permo-Triassic mass extinction and its consequences<BR>

    TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1

    The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - Synthesis and Architecture

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.2

    The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2