NAI
Christopher McKay
NASA Ames Research Center
Current Projects
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2014 NAI
- Permafrost in Hawaii — 2012 NAI
- Permafrost in Hawaii — 2011 NAI
- Sleeping Through the Arctic Martian Sol — 2008 NAI
- Carbonate Lithologies on Devon Island, Canada — 2008 NAI
- FMARS Long Duration Mission: A Simulation of Manned Mars Exploration in an Analogue Environment, Devon Island, Canada — 2008 NAI
- FMARS Long Duration Mission: A Simulation of Manned Mars Exploration in an Analogue Environment, Devon Island, Canada — 2007 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2007 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2006 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2005 NAI
- Autonomous Sensor Networks for Hydrology Research — 2004 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2004 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2003 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2002 NAI
- Organic Chemical Evolution From the Solar Nebula to the Earth — 2002 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2001 NAI
- Habitable Planets — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Ansdell, M., Ehrenfreund, P., & McKay, C. (2011). Stepping stones toward global space exploration. Acta Astronautica, 68(11-12), 2098–2113. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.10.025
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Coustenis, A., Atreya, S. K., Balint, T., Brown, R. H., Dougherty, M. K., Ferri, F., … Young, E. F. (2008). TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission. Exp Astron, 23(3), 893–946. doi:10.1007/s10686-008-9103-z
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Ehrenfreund, P., McKay, C., Rummel, J. D., Foing, B. H., Neal, C. R., Masson-Zwaan, T., … Race, M. (2012). Toward a global space exploration program: A stepping stone approach. Advances in Space Research, 49(1), 2–48. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2011.09.014
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Fletcher, L. E., Conley, C. A., Valdivia-Silva, J. E., Perez-Montaño, S., Condori-Apaza, R., Kovacs, G. T. A., … McKay, C. P. (2011). Determination of low bacterial concentrations in hyperarid Atacama soils: comparison of biochemical and microscopy methods with real-time quantitative PCR. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 57(11), 953–963. doi:10.1139/w11-091
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Tsou, P., Brownlee, D. E., McKay, C. P., Anbar, A. D., Yano, H., Altwegg, K., … Kanik, I. (2012). LIFE: Life Investigation For Enceladus A Sample Return Mission Concept in Search for Evidence of Life. Astrobiology, 12(8), 730–742. doi:10.1089/ast.2011.0813
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- Raulin, F., Hand, K.P., McKay, C., Fortes, D. & Viso, M. (2010, In Press). Exobiology, Habitability, and Planetary Protection in Moons of the Outer Solar System: Exchange Processes Involving the Interiors’. In: Grassett, O. (Eds.). See Project
- Tsou, P., Brownlee, D.E., McKay, C.P., Yano, H., Strange, N., Beegle, L.W., Dissley, R. & Kanik, I. (2011). LIFE: Life Investigation For Enceladus, A Sample Return Mission Concept in Search for Evidence of Life. AGU Fall meeting. San Francisco, CA. See Project
- Walter, N., Smith, T., Worms, J.C., Rummel, J., McKay, C. & Ehrenfreund, P. (2011). International Earth-based research and technology program as a stepping stone for global space exploration. 62nd International Astronautical Congress. Cape Town, SA. See Project See Project
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