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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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Deployable Artificial Intelligence for Exploration and Discovery in the Deep Sea

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: When we start to mount Astrobiology missions to explore ocean worlds we’ll need ways for our robotic submersibles to observe and interact with whatever life forms they may […]

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Ocean Planet Exploration And Taxonomy: Naming A Strange New Species

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: one day we will begin a detailed exploration of ocean worlds other than our own. Hopefully they will be habitable – and inhabited. Given that we still find […]

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Ocean World Exploration: New Autonomous Vehicle Studies Deep Ocean Critical Minerals

by Keith Cowing

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was part […]

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Water Planet Chemistry: Ocean Acidification Is More Pervasive Than Previously Thought

by Keith Cowing

New research by an international team of oceanographers has found that ocean acidification has significantly compromised 40% of the global surface ocean, and 60% of the subsurface ocean to a […]

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The NOW NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy NASA-DARES White Paper

by Keith Cowing

Ocean Worlds Exploration and the Search For LifeAuthors: NOW Co-Leads & Steering Committee

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s New Remotely Operated Vehicles

by Keith Cowing

Woods Hole, Mass. (September 27, 2024) – The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has received complementary awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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