In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has examined a meteorite that […]
exobiology
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Habitable Zones, Origin & Evolution of Life
Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen on Earth
A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, arguably the […]
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Brinicles or sea stalactites provide clues to origin of life
Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice — sometimes called “sea stalactites” — that grow downward into cold seawater near […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 2 December 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Keith’s note: Dale Andersen just phone in his latest status report from his base camp at Lake Untersee, Antarctica. Dale was able to make his first dive under the ice […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 30 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Keith’s note: I spoke with Dale Andersen at Lake Untersee, Antarctica today via satphone. The dive hole has been completed and is about 3 meters deep. Valeri and Vladimir are […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 29 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
29 Nov 2012 11:15 am EST (4:15 pm UTC at Lake Untersee)
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 26 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
With the small 25 cm diameter sampling hole opened in the south basin of Lake Untersee, Valery, Vladimir and Michael collected 30 liters of water that is now being filtered in […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 25 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Looks like our nice weather may continue for a few days. Today Alfonso, Michael and I installed two small met stations to collect wind/temp/RH at two locations around the lake.
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 24 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
We are now fully operational at the Lake Untersee, all the tents are up and the weather has been cooperating nicely with little wind and sunny skies. I guess we need […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 21 November 2012, Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica
Received from Dale Andersen Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica, on 21 November 2012 via Iridium email: