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

September 2011ERRATUM: “LIGHT SCATTERING FROM EXOPLANET OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERES” (2010, ApJ, 723, 1168)

Zugger, M. E., Kasting, J. F., Williams, D. M., Kane, T. J., & Russell Philbrick, C. (2011). The Astrophysical Journal, 739(1), 55. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/739/1/55

August 2011Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases

Callahan, M. P., Smith, K. E., Cleaves, H. J., Ruzicka, J., Stern, J. C., Glavin, D. P., … Dworkin, J. P. (2011). Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(34), 13995–13998. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106493108

TWO UPPER LIMITS ON THE ROSSITER-MCLAUGHLIN EFFECT, WITH DIFFERING IMPLICATIONS: WASP-1 HAS A HIGH OBLIQUITY AND WASP-2 IS INDETERMINATE

Albrecht, S., Winn, J. N., Johnson, J. A., Paul Butler, R., Crane, J. D., Shectman, S. A., … Thompson, I. B. (2011). The Astrophysical Journal, 738(1), 50. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/738/1/50

Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia

Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., Macdonald, F. A., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. (2011). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308(1-2), 29–40. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.030

A MAGELLAN MIKE AND SPITZER MIPS STUDY OF 1.5-1.0 M ☉ STARS IN SCORPIUS-CENTAURUS

Chen, C. H., Mamajek, E. E., Bitner, M. A., Pecaut, M., Su, K. Y. L., & Weinberger, A. J. (2011). The Astrophysical Journal, 738(2), 122. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/738/2/122

Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline

Edwards, C. J., Suchard, M. A., Lemey, P., Welch, J. J., Barnes, I., Fulton, T. L., … Barnett, R. (2011). Current Biology, 21(15), 1251–1258. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.058

Near-infrared spectroscopy of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap Asteroids: (3760) Poutanen and (974) Lioba

Fieber-Beyer, S. K., & Gaffey, M. J. (2011). Icarus, 214(2), 645–651. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.014

Polymorphism of dense, hot oxygen

Goncharov, A. F., Subramanian, N., Ravindran, T. R., Somayazulu, M., Prakapenka, V. B., & Hemley, R. J. (2011). J. Chem. Phys., 135(8), 084512. doi:10.1063/1.3626860

In silico evaluation of proposed biosynthetic pathways for the unique dithiolate ligand of the H-cluster of [FeFe]-hydrogenase

Grigoropoulos, A., & Szilagyi, R. K. (2011). Journal of Computational Chemistry, 32(15), 3194–3206. doi:10.1002/jcc.21901

Nitrogenase Structure and Function Relationships by Density Functional Theory

Harris, T. V., & Szilagyi, R. K. (2011). Methods in Molecular Biology, None(None), 267–291. doi:10.1007/978-1-61779-194-9_18

1...367/368/369/370/371...462