Our new report identifies 11 science objectives for the first human missions to #Mars, with searching for evidence of existing or past life on Mars being the top priority.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/LCJ650XGxOK
A postdoc position working on marine phage - please share widely!
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Here's the 3D, narrated movie version: youtu.be/_QvlRH-q0nw?... 🔭🧪
Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn
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Cumberland drill hole in Yellowknife Bay, Mars, with superimposed molecules. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, Caroline Freissinet
Instruments aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover found multiple long-chain alkanes on Mars. While the compounds could have been formed through abiotic processes, their detection suggests that true biosignatures could be preserved on the red planet. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Organics from ancient life on Mars? It can't be ruled out! It is time to bring home samples from Mars and analyze them using the best lab instruments to know for sure. science.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
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One hemisphere of Jupiter seen against the darkness of space. The planet's atmosphere features colorful bands of swirling storms. Image processed from raw JunoCam data by Jackie Branc.
The back half of the Perseverance rover seen against a landscape of rolling desert hills, and the Sun glowing low on the horizon. Image processed from raw NavCam data by Kevin M. Gill
A full-disc view of Earth in space, with Australia and parts of Asia visible beather swirling white clouds.
More postcards from the planets: a few views captured by NASA spacecraft across the solar system during the past week.
- Jupiter from Juno
- Mars from the Perseverance rover
- The Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Earth from NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft
Me too, we were told yesterday by the university that GRFP has not been affected yet. Not sure if that has changed today though 🤷🏻♂️
Research Experience for Undergraduates program applications are open! You can work with scientists at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. Research topics span the field of astrobiology, from microbiology to planetary geology to observational astronomy. 🧪 🔭
www.seti.org/research-exp...
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The nebula looks more like a tangled web or perhaps two angry crabs engaged in combat. Tendrils of bright yellow-green whip around the center of the image, changing to deeper oranges as you traverse outward. A faint glow of blue and white covers most of the nebula. Several blue stars glow around the edges of the image.
Wake up nerds, new JWST image just dropped! 🔭🧪
The Crab Nebula 🦀, a supernova remnant, captured in stunning near and mid-infrared light. Dust is shown in light yellow & green. Sulfur dominates in reds & oranges. Iron is in blue.
📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim
read more: go.nasa.gov/46Qlaa6
Oh this is cool! "Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission" www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, Origins Worlds and Life, is now fully available WITH figures!
nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26522/c...
So excited to be this week's guest on NASA Astrobiology's "Ask an Astrobiologist" tune in for my episode, "Scouring the seafloofor hydrothermal systems and biosignatures" on Wednesday
Follow this link for more details www.youtube.com/live/JnWHOdn...
So awesome! I am looking forward to watching you on there!!
