Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    PI Michael Mumma
    Members 51 (See)
    Active Dates 11/2003 - 10/2008
    Team Website http://astrobiology.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    Executive Summary

    Project Reports

    A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Accomplishments of Graduate Student Yana Radeva

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Astrobiology Sample Analysis Program (ASAP)

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Breakdown of methane due to electric discharge: A Laboratory Investigation with Relevance to Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1

    Chemical Models of Nebular Processes

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Circumstellar Disk Evolution and Habitable Planet Formation

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Composition of Parent Volatiles in Comets: Oxidized Carbon

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Extrasolar Planets

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Fingerprinting Late Additions to the Earth and Moon via the Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Lunar Impact Melt Rocks

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Studies of solid-state acetylene in space and in the laboratory

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    X-ray emission from an intermediate-mass young star, protostar binary system and star-forming regions

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    EPO Reports

    Astrobiology in the Secondary Classroom

    Expanding NAI's E/PO Network to Include Other American Indian Nations and Tribes

    Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology

    Preserving Critical Continuity with Tribal Nations

    Project Reports

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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
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  • 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
  • 7.1 Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials
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