"Is there anything (just in our solar system) that remains to be discovered or that you do not understand?"
Now showing: Year 2008 projects from the ARC team
Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe
Objective 1: Determine whether the atmosphere of the early Earth, hydrothermal or exogenous matter were significant sources of organic matter.
Habitable Planets
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 1, 2, 4
Habitable Planets
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 1, 2, 4
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Roadmap Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System
Objective 2: Develop and test plausible pathways by which ancient counterparts of membrane systems, proteins and nucleic acid were synthesized from simpler precursors and assembled into protocells.
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Habitable Planets
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 1, 2, 4
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Objective 3: Replicating, catalytic systems capable of evolution, and construct laboratory models of metabolism in primitive living systems.
Early Metabolic Pathways
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3, 3
Early Metabolic Pathways
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3, 3
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment
Objective 4: Expand and interpret the genomic database of a select group of key microorganisms in order to reveal the history and dynamics of evolution.
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4, 5
Habitable Planets
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 1, 2, 4
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Objective 5: Describe the sequences of causes and effects associated with the development of Earth's early biosphere and the global environment.
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4, 5
Interplanetary Pioneers
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 6
Objective 6: Define how ecophysiological processes structure microbial communities, influence their adaptation and evolution, and affect their detection on other planets.
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Roadmap Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Hindcasting Ecosystems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6
Interplanetary Pioneers
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 6
Roadmap Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth
Objective 7: Identify the environmental limits for by examining biological adaptations to extremes in environmental conditions.
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
Prebiotic Organics from Space
TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7
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