Mauna Loan lava tube Archives

This image was taken in August 2019 inside a lava tube near Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano, where scientists had come to study the microbes and minerals that could reveal insights about similar environments on Mars. Pictured in the left foreground is Chloe Fishman, who, at the time this image was taken, was an undergraduate researcher at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Behind her is Cherie Achilles, and to her right, facing the camera, is Amy McAdam. Both are scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credits: NASA Goddard / Molly Wasser

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Away Team Exploration Of Lava Caves Informs The Search For Life On Mars

by Keith CowingApril 7, 2023April 7, 2023

In August 2019, Chloe Fishman crawled into a cave beneath the largest active volcano on the planet. Along with scientists from NASA and other institutions, she had come to Hawaii’s […]

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Away Team Exploration Of Lava Caves Informs The Search For Life On Mars

Rethinking The Origin Of Life At Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents

Proto-Biosignatures and Planetary Geochemical Metabolism: A Thermodynamic Screening Model of Prebiotic Geochemical Organization

Cultivation Of Halophilic Archaea In Shallow Subsurface Martian Conditions Has Implications For Extant Life On Mars

Roman Space Telescope Leaves Earth

Atmospheric Retrieval of Combined JWST, HST, and Ground-Based Observations Reveals a Featureless Transmission Spectrum for GJ 1132 b