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Highlighting A Science Strategy For Human Exploration Of Mars

by Keith Cowing

A Science Strategy for Human Exploration of Mars, charts a bold, scientifically based blueprint for humanity’s greatest cosmic adventure—sending explorers to Mars to answer the universe’s most profound questions: Is […]

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A Cloud-Based Tool For Meteorite Recovery Using Drones And Machine Learning

by Keith Cowing

We present a cloud-based tool that uses drones and machine learning to help recover instrumentally observed meteorite falls.

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Asteroid Impact Site Reveals Possible Traces Of Early Life

by Keith Cowing

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing life.

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New Sulfur-dependent Ecosystem In A Gas Vent In The Depths Of The Chilean Pacific

by Keith Cowing

Unlike most similar emanations described to date, this one shows no evidence of methane emission or consumption. The absence of this molecule and its abundance of sulfur make it a […]

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Water World Genomics: Unlocking Ocean Secrets With eDNA

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of other worlds and understanding the processes whereby other biospheres arise and evolve, thought needs to be given to developing sensor […]

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Dew And Frost Do Not Serve As Water Sources For Rock-dwelling Organisms In The Dry Valleys Of Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

Rock-dwelling chlorolichens and cyanobacteria provide most of the total biomass of the ice-free zone of Antarctica, i.e., the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), and yet, the water sources of MDV are […]

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Drone Radar Reveals Buried Glaciers On Earth, Guiding The Search For Water On Mars

by Keith Cowing

Understanding how to explore hidden glaciers on Mars begins not in a laboratory, but in remote field camps across Alaska and Wyoming.

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Offworld Science Droids: A Review Maps Key Technologies For Small-body Sampling Robots

by Keith Cowing

Unlike planetary rovers operating on the Moon or Mars, robots working on asteroids and comets must interact with surfaces where gravity is extremely weak, terrain is highly irregular, and material […]

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Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Liposome Congregation in Meteorite Craters of Early Earth

by Keith Cowing

This paper provides experimental and numerical evidence supporting the occurrence of liposome congregation at the floors of meteor craters on Early Earth.

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