Exploration Gear & Tech Archives - Astrobiology

Status Update Of NASA’s Assessment Of The Biological Contamination Threat Of Crewed Mars Surface Missions

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Away Team Visits Bhutan’s Unexplored Caves

Caves, Craters, Mountains & Lava Tubes

Away Team Visits Bhutan’s Unexplored Caves

Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False Positives

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False Positives

Icy Worlds

Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Receives Explorers Club Finn Roone Memorial Award

Dale Andersen's Field Reports

Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Receives Explorers Club Finn Roone Memorial Award

Tricorder Tech: New Technique Expands Tissues So Hundreds Of Biomolecules Can Be Seen Inside Cells

Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: New Technique Expands Tissues So Hundreds Of Biomolecules Can Be Seen Inside Cells

Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science

Data - Apps - AI - Cybernetics

Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science

Raiding Nature’s Genetic Toolbox For UV-C Resistance By Functional Metagenomics

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Raiding Nature’s Genetic Toolbox For UV-C Resistance By Functional Metagenomics

Humidity Enhancement in Dry Permafrost: The Effects of Temperature Cycles on Habitability

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Humidity Enhancement in Dry Permafrost: The Effects of Temperature Cycles on Habitability

Planetary Protection Protocols On Earth: Non-native Terrestrial Species In Antarctica

Planetary Protection & Biosafety

Planetary Protection Protocols On Earth: Non-native Terrestrial Species In Antarctica

Raman Spectroscopy As A Tool To Measure Silanol As Evidence Of Water-Rock Interactions For Astrobiological Exploration

Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry

Raman Spectroscopy As A Tool To Measure Silanol As Evidence Of Water-Rock Interactions For Astrobiological Exploration

Tricorder Tech: Testing Away Team Tools For The Moon And Beyond

Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: Testing Away Team Tools For The Moon And Beyond

Ocean World Genomic Assays: Searching For Terrestrial Cephalopod DNA

Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Ocean World Genomic Assays: Searching For Terrestrial Cephalopod DNA

Tricorder Tech: Space Station Imaging System to Enhance Space Biology and Life Detection Beyond Earth

Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: Space Station Imaging System to Enhance Space Biology and Life Detection Beyond Earth

Antarctic Biosecurity Policy Effectively Manages The Rates Of Alien Introductions

Planetary Protection & Biosafety

Antarctic Biosecurity Policy Effectively Manages The Rates Of Alien Introductions

Ocean Planet Biodiversity Genomics

Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics

Ocean Planet Biodiversity Genomics

NASA Astromaterials: ANSMET Report April 2025

Meteorites & Asteroids

NASA Astromaterials: ANSMET Report April 2025

Nighthawk: Rationale For A Mars Chopper Class Rotorcraft To Explore Noctis Labyrinthus

Mars

Nighthawk: Rationale For A Mars Chopper Class Rotorcraft To Explore Noctis Labyrinthus

Community Need For An Astrobiology Sample Repository And Sample Reference Suite

Sample Return

Community Need For An Astrobiology Sample Repository And Sample Reference Suite

Tricorder Tech: Extant Life Detection Using Label-Free Video Microscopy In Analog Aquatic Environments

Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: Extant Life Detection Using Label-Free Video Microscopy In Analog Aquatic Environments