Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: All projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 7.2

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

    Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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

    6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

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

    Astronomical Observations of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    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

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

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

    Chemistry and biology of ultramafic-hosted alkaline springs

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 7.2

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 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

    DDF: Geomicrobiology of a Unique Ice-Sulfur Spring Ecosystem in the High Arctic

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 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

    Earth as an Extrasolar Planet

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    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

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Iron and sulfur-based biospheres and their biosignatures

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

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

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 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

    New frontiers in micro-analysis of isotopic compositions of natural materials: Development of Fe isotopes

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.2

    Planetary Habitability

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.2

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

    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

    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

    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 biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Training for Oxygen: Peroxy in Rocks, Early Life and the Evolution of the Atmosphere

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool

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