Follow along as scientists from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team go on expedition with the NSF/NASA-sponsored Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. View photos, read about the team and their […]
2006
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The NASA Astrobiology Institute Selects Four New NAI Fellows
The NAI is pleased to announce the selection of four NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellows for 2006. They are: – Oleg Abramov, Advisor: Stephen Mojzsis, NAI University of Colorado, topic, Habitability […]
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December 2006 Issue of Astrobiology (Journal) Online
Astrobiology December 2006 Issue – Portable Analyzer Is Powerful Tool for Detecting Biomarkers of Life on Mars, Astrobiology The Mars Organic Analyzer (MOA) can detect a much broader spectrum of […]
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Astrobiology News 12 December 2006
Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated?, arXiv.org Regional nuclear war would trigger mass death, devastating climate change, Turtgers Radar Reveals View Of Land Beneath Ice, Ohio State NASA JSC […]
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Astrobiology News 11 December 2006
Searching for Planetary Transits in Globular Clusters – 47 Tucanae and omega Centauri, arXiv.org Radial Velocity Follow-up of Planetary Transit Candidate MACHO.120.22303.5389, arXiv.org Deep imaging survey of the environment of […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Direct Observation of Magnetic Field on Tau Bootis
An international team of researchers including NAI Postdoctoral Fellow Evgenya Shkolnik of the University of Hawai’i Team publish their observation in this month’s Royal Astronomical Society Letters of a magnetic […]
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Astrobiology News 8 December 2006
A Shot of Oxygen to Unleash the Evolution of Animals, Science Mars Orbiter’s Swan Song: The Red Planet Is A-Changin’, Science Present-Day Impact Cratering Rate and Contemporary Gully Activity on […]
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Astrobiology News 7 December 2006
Statistics and Simulations of Transit Surveys for Extrasolar Planets, arXiv.org
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Astrobiology News 5 December 2006
Discovery of Fundamental Mass Ratio Relationships of Whole-Rock Chondritic Major Elements: Implications on Ordinary Chondrite Formation and on Planet Mercury’s Composition, arXiv.org
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Astrobiology News 4 December 2006
Microlensing search for extrasolar planets, arXiv.org NASA Lab-on-a-Chip technology to begin journey to space Station Benzene formation in the inner regions of protostellar disks , arXiv.org