2003 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 1.1 Reports Reporting | JUL 2002 – JUN 2003
Roadmap Objective 1.1—Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
Project Reports
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Chemical Building Blocks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2 -
Studies in Planetary Formation and Evolution
During the course of the last five years, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) astronomy group has become perhaps the leading group worldwide studying the detection, formation, and evolution of planetary systems, with a special emphasis on systems containing habitable planets.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 2.1 7.2 -
Benner – Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2 -
Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2 -
Celestial Influences on Planetary Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 2.2 4.3 6.1 -
Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 -
Climate Model for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 -
Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites
The mechanisms that produced chondrules and CAIs were important, energetic processes in the early Solar System that would also have led to complex gas-phase chemistry.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 -
Impact Frustration and Subsequent Generation of Biologically Tenable Climates on Earth and Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.3 6.2 -
Delivery of Organics to Earth and Earthlike Planets – Brownlee and Kress
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 -
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Subproject: Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Its Consequences
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.2 4.3 6.1 -
Biogeochemistry of Earth’s Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2 -
Delivery of Organic Materials to Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 7.2 -
Exploration for Life in the Solar System
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 -
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: The Proterozoic Oxidiation of the Earth’s Surface
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 4.2 5.3 6.1 -
Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets
This year, we have worked on both a coupled photochemical-climate model for Earth-like planets, which is an end-to-end test case for the larger VPL atmosphere model, and chemistry models for extrasolar giant planets.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 7.2 -
Dynamics of Comets, Asteroids, and Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.2 4.3 -
Habitability of Planetary Bodies
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.1 4.3 -
The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 7.2 -
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – the Life Modules
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.2 -
Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere – Ohmoto
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2 -
Exploring the Living Universe; Origin, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Solar System (Europa)
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.2 -
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: Carbon Cycle and Climate Dyanamics of Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 -
Extra Solar Planetary Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 7.1 7.2 -
Spectroscopic Databases to Support Extrasolar Planet Modeling
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 4.1 7.2 -
The Formation of Planets Around Young Stars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 -
Galactic Chemical Evolution and Extrasolar Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 -
Magnetic Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.3 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 6.1 7.1 -
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – Synthesis and Architecture
Many environmental processes contribute to the reflected stellar and emitted thermal spectrum of a planet.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 7.2 -
Habitable Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.3 -
Cosmochemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 7.1