Planetary Protection & Biosafety
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Tricorder Tech: The Limits, Capabilities, and Potential for Life Detection with MinION Sequencing in a Paleochannel Mars Analog

by Keith Cowing

No instrument capable of direct life detection has been included on a mission payload to Mars since NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. This prevents us from discovering whether life […]

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ESA Space Omics Hackathon

by Keith Cowing

Join ESA for a 5-day virtual ESA Space Omics Hackathon to tackle space exploration challenges using NASA GeneLab omics datasets. Don’t miss this chance to shape the future of space […]

Posted inArtemis & Lunar Exploration, Astrogeology, Comets and Asteroids, Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetism, bioelectricity,, Meteorites & Asteroids, Missions & Hardware, Moon, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Press Release, Sample Return

Removal Of Magnetic Spacecraft Contamination Within Extraterrestrial Samples Is Easy To Do

by Keith Cowing

For decades, scientists have pondered the mystery of the moon’s ancient magnetism. Based on analyses of lunar samples, its now-deceased magnetic field may have been active for more than 1.5 […]

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openVertebrate Project: Open Access CT Scans To Thousands Of Natural History Specimens

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: When we begin to study the variety iof life forms on other worlds we’ll need to have a way to catalog what we have discovered, make an image […]

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The NASA Space Microbial Culture Collection Receives First Planetary Protection Samples

by Keith Cowing

The Space Microbial Culture Collection (SMCC) will be accepting its third microorganismal collection from Dr. Andrew Schuerger of University of Florida. This archive contains hypobarophiles, pressure tolerant species, that can […]

Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Mars, Microbiology & Virology, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Status Report, Tardigrades

Long-Term Survivability of Tardigrade Paramacrobiotus experimentalis (Eutardigrada)at Increased Magnesium Perchlorate Levels: Implications for Astrobiological Research

by Keith Cowing

Perchlorate salts, including magnesium perchlorate, are highly toxic compounds that occur on Mars at levels far surpassing those on Earth and pose a significant challenge to the survival of life […]

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