NAI
2016 Annual Science Report
VPL at University of Washington
Reporting | JAN 2016 – DEC 2016
Executive Summary
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory’s interdisciplinary research effort focuses on answering a single key question in astrobiology: If we were to find a terrestrial planet orbiting a distant star, how would we go about recognizing signs of habitability and life on that planet? This question is relevant to the search for life beyond our Solar System, as outlined in NASA’s Astrobiology Roadmap Goals 1 and 7. VPL research spans many of the Roadmap objectives, but is most relevant to Objectives 1.1 (Formation and Evolution of Habitable Planets), 1.2 (Indirect and Direct Observations of Extrasolar Habitable Planets) and 7.2 (Biosignatures to be Sought in Nearby Planetary Systems).
Recent observations have brought us much closer to identifying extrasolar environments that could support life. The successful Kepler Mission has found over 4700 planetary candidates – many of them smaller than twice the diameter of the ... Continue reading.
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Victoria Meadows
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
1/2013 - 12/2017 CAN 6 -
Team Website:
http://depts.washington.edu/naivpl/ -
Members:
73 (See All) - Visit Team Page
Project Reports
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Task E: The Observer
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 7.2 -
Task D: The Living Planet
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2 -
Task C: The Habitable Planet
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 -
Task B: Early to Current Earth and Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 5.1 6.1 7.1 7.2 -
Task A: Solar System Analogs for Extrasolar Planetary Processes and Observations
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 2.2 7.2
Education & Public Outreach
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2016 annual report.
2016 Teams
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
SETI Institute
University of California, Riverside
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Montana, Missoula
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin
VPL at University of Washington