A Report from the NASA Astrobiology Institute to the National Research Council Solar System Exploration Decadal Strategy Working Group
Keith Cowing
Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻
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The Role Of Astrobiology in Solar System Exploration
A Report from the NASA Astrobiology Institute to the National Research Council Solar System Exploration Decadal Strategy Working Group
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Testimony of Jack D. Farmer: “Life in the Universe” – Hearings before the House Subcommiteee on Space and Aeronautics
July 12, 2001U.S. House of RepresentativesHearing: Life in the UniverseDate: Thursday, July 12, 2001Written Testimony:Prof. Jack D. Farmer (Arizona State University)
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Hearing Charter “Life in the Universe” Hearings Before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCEU.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2320 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGWASHINGTON, DC 20515Hearing: Life in the Universe2318 Rayburn House Office BuildingThursday, July 12, 200110:00 A.M.
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mars, Meteorites & Asteroids, Press Release
Swiss Geologists Find A Mars Meteorite In Oman
Geologists from Bern University and from the Natural History Museum Bern have found more than 180 meteorites in Oman in January/February 2001.
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The Quarantine And Certification of Martian Samples (Report)
[National Research Council, Space Studies Board] Opening Statement by John A. Wood,Staff Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Chair, Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration
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Mars Revisted
To Bruce Jakosky, life’s demonstrated ability to weather almost anything Earth can dish out makes a strong argument that life probably does exist elsewhere in the universe. One likely spot, […]
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General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute 2001
General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Insititute, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington D.C., April 10-12, 2001
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Back-to-School Time for Astrobiologists
When NASA’s Pathfinder mission landed on Mars in 1997, public interest soared. The space agency was nearly overwhelmed by phone calls and emails from citizens who wanted to know what […]
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Commentary by NASA ARC’s Chris McKay on Magnetotactic Bacteria on Mars
The recent paper by Imre Friedmann and co-authors in PNAS (PNAS vol 98 page 2176, 2001) reports finding chains of magnetite that are consistent with a biological origin.