NASA Astrobiology Institute - Research

Research

Selected, significant topics of interdisciplinary research by NAI as of 2008:

  • Early habitability of Earth
  • The rise of oxygen and Earth's "middle age"
  • Snowball Earth
  • Microbial mat ecology
  • Discovery of the "rare biosphere"
  • Sub-seafloor life
  • Metal isotope tracers of environment and biology
  • Life without the Sun
  • Early wet Mars
  • Methane on Mars
  • Comets in space and in the laboratory
  • Exoplanet discovery and analysis
  • Modeling exoplanet biospheres

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