NASA Astrobiology



A volcanically active planet is shown in closeup at the left side of the image with glowing eruptions and lines of lava on the surface. To the right and in the distance is a faint blue glowing ball representing the more massive planet in the system.

Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were merged to create this image. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is visible in the center. Jupiter's moon Europa can be seen in the foreground at the bottom left of the image.

The frame is a horizontal rainbow of color on a grid. Shadows of molecules can be seen through the light as well as the jagged peaks and troughs of spectral lines.

Fizzy Super Earths and Lava Worlds“Fizzy Super-Earths: Impacts of Magma Composition on the Bulk Density and Structure of Lava Worlds.” in The Astrophysical Journal.01/03

Identifying Hydrothermal Activity on Icy Ocean Worlds“Ethene-ethanol ratios as potential indicators of hydrothermal activity at Enceladus, Europa, and other icy ocean worlds.” In Icarus.02/03

NASA Raman Spectroscopic Database"The NASA Raman spectroscopic database: Ramdb version 1.00.” In Icarus.03/03

NextPrevious

Go Explore

February 2022Quantitative and Compositional Analysis of Trace Amino Acids in Icy Moon Analogues Using a Microcapillary Electrophoresis Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection System

Duca, Z. A., Craft, K. L., Cable, M. L., & Stockton, A. M. (2022). Quantitative and Compositional Analysis of Trace Amino Acids in Icy Moon Analogues Using a Microcapillary Electrophoresis Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection System. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00297

Uniform initial 10Be/9Be inferred from refractory inclusions in CV3, CO3, CR2, and CH/CB chondrites

Dunham, E. T., Wadhwa, M., Desch, S. J., Liu, M. C., Fukuda, K., Kita, N., … Fujimoto, Y. (2022). Uniform initial 10Be/9Be inferred from refractory inclusions in CV3, CO3, CR2, and CH/CB chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.02.002

Impact-formed complex diamond-graphite nanostructures

Németh, P., McColl, K., Garvie, L. A. J., Corà, F., Salzmann, C. G., & McMillan, P. F. (2022). Impact-formed complex diamond-graphite nanostructures. Resolution and Discovery. doi:10.1556/2051.2021.00089

Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality

Gagler, D. C., Karas, B., Kempes, C. P., Malloy, J., Mierzejewski, V., Goldman, A. D., … Walker, S. I. (2022). Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(9), None. doi:10.1073/pnas.2106655119

Cyanide as a primordial reductant enables a protometabolic reductive glyoxylate pathway

Yadav, M., Pulletikurti, S., Yerabolu, J. R., & Krishnamurthy, R. (2022). Cyanide as a primordial reductant enables a protometabolic reductive glyoxylate pathway. Nature Chemistry, 14(2), 170–178. doi:10.1038/s41557-021-00878-w

Rethinking the Search for the Origins of Life

Trail, D., Elsila, J., M�ller, U., Lyons, T., & Rogers, K. (2022). Rethinking the Search for the Origins of Life. Eos, 103, None. doi:10.1029/2022eo220065

Picking out the warp and weft of the Ediacaran seafloor: Paleoenvironment and paleoecology of an Ediacara textured organic surface

Tarhan, L. G., Droser, M. L., & Gehling, J. G. (2022). Picking out the warp and weft of the Ediacaran seafloor: Paleoenvironment and paleoecology of an Ediacara textured organic surface. Precambrian Research, 369, 106539. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106539

An exploration of whether Earth can be built from chondritic components, not bulk chondrites

Alexander, C. M. O. D. (2022). An exploration of whether Earth can be built from chondritic components, not bulk chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 318, 428–451. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.12.012

Searching for Stellar and Planetary Emission in Large Field-of-view Radio Sky Surveys

Ling, J., Isella, A., Johns-Krull, C., & Lazio, T. J. W. (2022). Searching for Stellar and Planetary Emission in Large Field-of-view Radio Sky Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal, 926(2), 228. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac4514

January 2022Genome Sequence of the Early 20th-Century Extreme Halophile Halobacterium sp. Strain NRC-34001

DasSarma, P., Anton, B. P., Griffith, J. M., Kunka, K. S., Roberts, R. J., & DasSarma, S. (2022). Genome Sequence of the Early 20th-Century Extreme Halophile Halobacterium sp. Strain NRC-34001. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(1), None. doi:10.1128/mra.01181-21

1...109/110/111/112/113...519