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Icy ocean worlds - astrobiology research in Germany
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space SciencesIcy bodies with subsurface oceans are a prime target for astrobiology investigations, with an increasing number of scientists participating in the planning, development, and realization of space missions to these worlds.
Fabian Klenner +27 more
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Alien life matters: reflections on cosmopolitanism, otherness, and astrobiology [PDF]
, 2016 This is a synaptic paper that invites the reader to take a stroll on the edges of cross-disciplinary knowledge. We will walk the roads of anthropology, history, philosophy, astronomy and biology.
Novoa, Andre
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Astrobiology, 2020 In the past decade, astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of complex organic molecules. Some of these species are of prebiotic interest such as glycolaldehyde, the simplest sugar, or aminoacetonitrile, a possible
I. Jímenez-Serra +10 more
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Adaptationism fails to resolve Fermi's paradox [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2005 One of the most interesting problems in the nascent discipline of astrobiology is more than half-century old Fermi's paradox: why, considering extraordinary young age of Earth and the Solar System in the Galactic context, don't we perceive much older ...
Ćirković Milan M. +2 more
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A sustainable culture of tardigrades (Hypsibius dujardini) for astrobiological laboratory activities [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 Tardigrades are microscopic organisms that have gained importance in astrobiology in recent years. They have extreme survival ability and can enter into a state of latency for several years called cryptobiosis.
Núñez Patricia G. +2 more
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The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap [PDF]
Astrobiology, 2008 The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap provides guidance for research and technology development across the NASA enterprises that encompass the space, Earth, and biological sciences. The ongoing development of astrobiology roadmaps embodies the contributions of diverse scientists and technologists from government, universities, and private institutions.
Des Marais, David J. +10 more
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Astrobiology and astrophilosophy: subsuming or bifurcating diciplines? [PDF]
, 2019 Initially, astrobiology subsumed into philosophy. However, philosophy has increasingly subsumed into astrobiology concurrent with it steadily becoming an observational and experimental activity that mainly focuses on the link between life and the cosmos,
von Hegner, Ian
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Spectral signatures of photosynthesis I: Review of Earth organisms
, 2007 Why do plants reflect in the green and have a 'red edge' in the red, and should extrasolar photosynthesis be the same? We provide: 1) a brief review of how photosynthesis works; 2) an overview of the diversity of photosynthetic organisms, their light ...
Bebout B.M. +13 more
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Life, 2021 The availability of liquid water is a prerequisite for all lifeforms on Earth. In hyperarid subzero environments like the Dry Valleys in Antarctica or the near-subsurface of Mars liquid water might be provided temporarily by hygroscopic substances that ...
Jacob Heinz +2 more
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Astrobiology: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool [PDF]
, 2006 This product consists of eight astrobiology after-school activities, each of which may be completed in about one hour. The science of astrobiology is concerned with the question of whether or not life exists on other planets.
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