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"As Earth is a planet of the Sun (a star) that supports life, is it true that there is life on the other planets that travel around Proxima Centauri?"

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Now showing: Year 2004 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

Molecular survey of extremophile microbial diversity in hypersaline ecosystems

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

An Astronomical Search for the Essential Ingredients for Life: Placing Our Habitable System in Context. Progress Report

TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

Astrobiotechnology

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

Astrobiotechnology Focus Group

TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 7.2

Autonomous Sensor Networks for Hydrology Research

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1, 7.1

Biosignatures and Abiosignatures

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 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

Building a habitable planet: the geological record

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

Climate Model For Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 7.1

Deep Time Drilling Project

TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1

Development advanced methods for the in situ analysis of complex organics in small bodies in the solar system

TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

Electrochemical isotope effects with applications to stable isotope fractionation in transition metals

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1

Miniature Mass Spectrometer Development

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

Planetary Biology, Evolution and Intelligence

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

Post Doc Recruitment - Water and its Relation to Life in the Universe

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

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

Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

Re-tracing Steps Towards a Habitable World: The Biogeochemical Evolution of Sulfur on 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

Recognition of Theoretical Environments on Mars

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 7.1

Searching for ancestral sequences

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1, 7.2

Subsurface Biospheres

TEAM: URI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Subsurface Biospheres_execSumm

TEAM: URI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

The Historical Character of Astrobiology and Circumventing the Problem of Defining "Life"

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

UH NAI Visiting Faculty Scholars Program

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

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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

Marine Biological Laboratory

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

SETI Institute

University of Arizona

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Hawaii

University of Rhode Island

University of Washington

Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

"As Earth is a planet of the Sun (a star) that supports life, is it true that there is life on the other planets that travel around Proxima Centauri?"

Now showing: Year 2004 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

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