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NAI Science Highlights
August 16, 20192019
A New Mineral that May be Abundant on Titan
Global Geomorphologic Map of Titan
Water and Hydrocarbon Interactions on Titan
Accreted Organics Contribute Significantly to Titan’s Atmosphere
Interstellar Objects and DSHARP Point Towards 100 Billion Hidden Planets
Molecular Cousins Discovered on Titan
Clues to Evolution From Simple Proteins
Inferring Europa’s Ocean Composition from its Surface Chemistry
Ramparts Discovered Around Titan Lakes
Family Science Nights: Exploring Life on Other Planets
Measuring Titan’s Methane from Earth
Predicting a Restricted Habitable Zone for Complex Life
The Case of the Over-tilting Exoplanets
Life Beyond Earth. How Do We Find It?
Enceladus on Earth? Life Strategies in Serpentinites
Carbon Monoxide May Not Rule Out the Presence of Life
Evolution of Multicellularity in Response to Predation
Gradients Drive Prebiotic Chemistry in Vents
Guiding Life Detection Through Discovery of HyperdiverseHydrothermal Communities
NASA Choctaw & Chickasaw Nation STEM Camps
Citizen Science Exploring the Microbial Hot Spring in Your Basement
Microtubules in Subsurface Basalts: Biological Origin or Not?
2018
Pale Orange Dots: Organic Haze as a Biosignature on Other Earths
Abiotic Formation of the Sugar of DNA
Mars Research in the Chilean High Andes
The 2018 Josep Comas i Sola International Summer School in Astrobiology
Early Evolution of Purple Retinal Pigments: Implications for Exoplanet Biosignatures
Geoelectrodes and Fuel Cells for Simulating Hydrothermal Vent Environments
Laughing Gas Could Have Helped Warm Early Earth *
Early Career Astrobiologists Explore Ancient Life
Rethinking Long-Term Controls on Planetary Climate *
Oman Drilling Project: An Ancient Seabed Holds Secrets in the Search for Life on Other Planets
Tracking the Rise of Eukaryotes with Zinc Isotopes
Detecting Kerogen as a Biosignature Using the Mars 2020 SHERLOC Instrument
Reassessing Exoplanet Meteorology from the Thermal Phase Variations
Atmospheric Seasonality as an Exoplanet Biosignature *
Reactive Oxygen Species: Radical Factors in the Evolution of Animal Life
A New ‘Atmospheric Disequilibrium’ Could Help Detect Life on Other Planets
A Virus-Bacteria Coevolutionary ‘Arms Race’ Solves the Diversity Paradox
Tidal Friction Heating Enceladus for Billion Years
2017
Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
False Negatives in Remote Life Detection: Lessons from Early Earth
Astrobiology at Chicago’s Field Museum
Early Life on Earth Dates Back 3.77 Billion Years
Earth’s Oldest Fossils Show Life Evolved Early, Far and Fast
Thermal Habitability of the Earth’s Seafloor
Mongolian Microfossils Point to the Rise of Animals on Earth *
Cold Stars, Warm Exoplanets, and Methane Blankets
Phosphorus: The Key to Life on Earth as We Know It?
2016
How Friendly is Enceladus’ Ocean to Life? *
Methane Muted: How Did Early Earth Stay Warm?
Nitrogen in Ancient Mud: A Biosignature?
Chiral Molecule Detected in Interstellar Space
Rise in Earths Oxygen Timed to the Rise of Animals
*Accepted by NASA SMD
