"Could climate change cause Earth to suffer a runaway greenhouse effect and end up like Venus?"
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Indiana University, Bloomington
Executive Summary
Biosustaining Energy in the Subsurface of Earth and Mars
Project Reports
Abiotic Experiments & Hydrocarbon Yielding Water/Mineral Reactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 7.1, 7.2Construction of a borehole apparatus for sampling of fluids and microbes in sub-permafrost groundwater, Nunavut Territory, Canada
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3Design and Assembly of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of concentration and isotopic composition of methane in gases
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1, 7.2Drilling a borehole for sampling of gases, water, and microbes in sub-permafrost groundwater at High Lake, Nunavut Territory, Canada
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2Evolution of abiotic environments to ecosystems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2Experimental Study of Radiolytic Oxidation of Pyrite as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2Laser fluorometry for remote detection of oxygenic phototrophs on Earth and, potentially, on Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3Retentostat Studies of Subsurface Sulfate Reducing Bacterium
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2Saline Lakes and Gypsum Dunes in the Rio Grande Rift System as Analogues for Sulfate Deposits on Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 7.2Simulating Preservation of Amino Acids and Peptides in Evaporitic Sulfate Deposits on the Surface of Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2Survival capability of a cold-loving microbe in a Mars simulation chamber
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1EPO Reports
Exploring Deep-Subsurface Life. Earth Analogues for Possible Life on Mars: Lessons and Activities
IPTAI Education and Public Outreach Efforts, 2006-2007: Teacher Workshops
IPTAI Education and Public Outreach Efforts, 2006-2007: Public Lectures, Media Interviews for Magazines, Newspapers, Radio and Internet Broadcasts
Project Reports
Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective
- Objective 2.1: Mars exploration (Found: 8)
- Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration (Found: 8)
- Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts (Found: 4)
- Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules (Found: 1)
- Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction (Found: 3)
- Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life (Found: 1)
- Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms (Found: 6)
- Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities (Found: 5)
- Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments (Found: 7)
- Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems (Found: 5)
- Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth (Found: 5)
- Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials (Found: 8)
- Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems (Found: 6)
Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System
Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment
Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth
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