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2007 Annual Science Report

SETI Institute Reporting  |  JUL 2006 – JUN 2007

Executive Summary

The SETI Institute (SI) NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team is conducting a suite of coupled research projects in the co-evolution of life and its planetary environment. These projects address three of NASA’s Astrobiology Roadmap fundamental questions: (1) how does life begin and evolve; (2) does life exist elsewhere in the universe? and (3) what is the future of life on Earth and beyond? These projects begin by examining specific fundamental ancient transitions that ultimately made complex life possible on Earth. They conclude with a synthesis that brings many of the team’s investigations together into an examination of the suitability of planets orbiting M dwarfs for either single-celled or more complex life.


The astrobiology roadmap calls for a strategy “for recognizing novel biosignatures” that “ultimately should accommodate a diversity of habitable conditions, biota and technologies in the universe that probably exceeds the diversity observed on Earth ... Continue reading.

Field Sites
14 Institutions
1 Project Reports
0 Publications
0 Field Sites
Roadmap
Objectives

Project Reports

  • Planetary Biology, Evolution, and Intelligence

    The results of a two and a half day workshop on the topic of the Habitability of Planets Orbiting M Stars was published recently. Thirty scientists from nineteen institutions in the US and UK participated. Thirteen of the participants were from six other NAI Teams

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.1 7.2

Publications

  • There are no publications for this team in the 2007 annual report.

2007 Teams