Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: All projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.3

  2. Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

    Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction

    Biomimetic Cluster Synthesis: Bridging the Structure and Reactivity of Biotic and Abiotic Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Computational Chemical Modeling the Link Between Structure and Reactivity of Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    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

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Mars Forward Contamination Studies Utilizing a Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber

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

    Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 5.1, 5.2

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.2

    Molecular Beam Studies of Nitrogen Reactions on Iron-Sulfur Surfaces

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Origin of Life and Catalysis - Philosophical Considerations

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Probing the Structure and Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Iron-Sulfur Minerals

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Structure, Function, and Biosynthesis of the Complex Iron-Sulfur Clusters at the Active Sites of Nitrogenases and Hydrogenases

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 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