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In Situ Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor

In this paper, we report a fully automated, end-to-end (sample-in/data-out) capillary electrophoresis system.

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Groundwater Microbial Diversity Associated With Icelandic Basaltic Subsurface Environments

Microbial communities in the deep basaltic aquifers of Iceland remain poorly characterized, despite their relevance for understanding subsurface biogeochemical processes, including silicate weathering.

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Feeling the Pressure: Effects of Formation Pressure on the Physical Properties of Titan Haze Analogs

The Cassini-Huygens mission detected large negative ions in Titan’s ionosphere at pressures as low as 10−6 torr. These ions ultimately polymerize to form Titan’s complex organic haze particles, which are […]

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Laser-based Mass Spectrometry For The Detection Of Signatures Of Life Within Our Solar System

The search for signatures of life beyond Earth has been a major goal of space research and astrobiology for decades. The combination of expanded knowledge on Solar System bodies from […]

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Community Survey: Field-Based Studies And Sample Processing Facility

Scientists at Northern Arizona University are conducting a research study gathering views from members of the planetary science community on field-based studies and the interest in a potential centralized facility […]

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Orbital Biosignature Assay: Antarctica’s Vanishing Sea Ice Transforms Marine Life

Editor’s note: when our first missions – human or robotic – arrive at a new world we’ll want to do glean as much information from space – via fly by […]

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Deep Microbial Colonization in 2-Billion-Year-Old Ultramafic Rock from the Bushveld Complex

Archean cratons may provide stable microbial habitats in the deep subsurface, as evidenced by the discovery of billion-year-old crustal fluids.

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Extreme Arabian Environments And Their Microbiomes: New Frontiers For Astrobiology And Biosignature Discovery

Astrobiology assesses the habitability of planetary bodies and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

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The JWST Search For Earth-Luna Analogs: Upper Limits On Exomoons And Refined Ephemerides For TOI 700 d And e

While no conclusive detections of exomoons have been reported to date, planet formation theories predict that satellites should be a common outcome of the collisional dynamics in early extrasolar systems.

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Revealing the Internal Structure of Mars-Analog Glaciers From Drone-Based Radar Sounding

Debris-covered glaciers (DCGs) at the mid latitudes of Mars preserve ice accumulated in multiple episodes of high obliquity during the Amazonian age. The englacial debris layers formed during interglacials are […]

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