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  2. Five Steps Toward Future Exploration


    New ASTEP projects selected.Five new ASTEP projects have been selected for funding. PIs include Donald Banfield of Cornell University, Lisa Pratt of Indiana University, Nathalie Cabrol of NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, Bill Stone of Stone Aerospace and David Wettergreen of Carnegie Mellon University.
    The NASA Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program has announced a set of new projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the astrobiological exploration of the Solar System. From the Atacama desert in Chile to the Great Slave Lake in arctic Canada to southwest Greenland, the projects involve technologies that will be deployed in some of the most fascinating locations on Earth. As the teams seek to understand the potential for life elsewhere, they will also decipher links between life in extreme environments and the climate history of our own planet,...

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  3. Can the Martian Arctic Support Extreme Life?


    ABC.com features NASA’s Phoenix lander and the search for life on Mars in a new article on their Technology and Science website. Harkening back to Viking, and citing new discoveries of microbes in Greenland’s glaciers, the article focuses on the need to understand the microbiology of Earth’s extreme environments in order to best search for life on other planets.

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  4. Novel Species of Bacteria Found Deep Within Greenland Glacier


    Researchers from NAI’s Penn State Team announced at this week’s American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in Boston their discovery of a novel species of ultra-small bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. Read Penn State’s press release here. The species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants, yet it has persisted in a low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat. The study’s authors speculate that it’s unusual size...

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