[PNAS] Alkaline vents have dominated a class of hypotheses for the origins of life since their discovery a quarter of century ago, but advances in understanding the nature of these […]
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Ocean World Exploration: 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration
[NOAA]. Most of the 13,581-square-mile National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa lies far below the sunlit coral reefs visible from shore. Its protected waters include deep seamounts, abyssal plains, deep-sea […]
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Water World Genomics: Unlocking Ocean Secrets With eDNA
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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Habitable Planet Orbital Recon: GEO-KOMPSAT-2A Views Super Typhoon Sinlak
The image on the left is in TrueColor. The image on the right shows water vapor imagery.
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Terrestrial Technosignatures: Satellites Capture The Glowing Pulse Of Human Civilization
An analysis of data from the VIIRS DNB satellite instrument covering the years 2014 to 2022 finds that nighttime lighting is increasing globally by about two percent per year. “Although […]
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Deployable Artificial Intelligence for Exploration and Discovery in the Deep Sea
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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Video: A Preview Of Future Gas Giant Exploration
Imagine what a future Astrobiology droid might see as it flies through clouds on Jupiter or Saturn looking for biosignatures.
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Ocean Planet Exploration And Taxonomy: Naming A Strange New Species
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
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
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 […]