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
Read more about this topic: NASA Astrobiology Institute
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