NASA Astrobiology Roadmap and New Discoveries in Journal Astrobiology Drive Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The latest version of NASA's Astrobiology Roadmap and exciting reports on new strategies for detecting biosignatures in Earth rocks highlight the diverse content of the August 2008 (Volume 8, Number 4) issue of Astrobiology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The latest version of NASAs Astrobiology Roadmap, a comprehensive document intended to guide and integrate research and technology development across groups from academia, government, and private institutions, is highlighted in this issue. The Roadmap defines research objectives aimed at answering three main questions: how does life begin and evolve; does life exist elsewhere in the universe; and what is the future of life on Earth and beyond?
Contents below
- Tribute to John F. Lindsay
- Introduction
- The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap
- Discovery of a New Chert-Permineralized Microbiota in the Proterozoic Buxa Formation of the Ranjit Window, Sikkim, Northeast India, and Its Astrobiolo
- Silicifying Biofilm Exopolymers on a Hot-Spring Microstromatolite: Templating Nanometer-Thick Laminae
- Amino Acids from Ion-Irradiated Nitrile-Containing Ices
- Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy to Detect Water in Planetary Regoliths
- Experiment LEND of the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for High-Resolution Mapping of Neutron Emission of the Moon
- Hairy Blobs: Microbial Suspects Preserved in Modern and Ancient Extremely Acid Lake Evaporites
- Was There a Late Archean Biospheric Explosion?
- Stable Iron Isotopes and Microbial Mediation in Red Pigmentation of the Rosso Ammonitico (Mid-Late Jurassic, Verona Area, Italy)
- Fluorescence Microscopy as a Tool for In Situ Life Detection