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Away Team Droid Tech: Towards Automated Sample Collection and Return in Extreme Underwater Environments astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #droid #analog #submersible #samplereturn

Away Team Droid Tech: Towards Automated Sample Collection and Return in Extreme Underwater Environments - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com System design, operational strategy, and results of coordinated multi-vehicle field demonstrations of autonomous marine robotic technologies.

Rotational Spectroscopy of CH3OD with a Reanalysis of CH3OD Toward IRAS 162932422 astrobiology.com/2024/07/rota... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy

Dust storm-driven Dispersal of Potential Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes In The Eastern Mediterranean astrobiology.com/2024/07/dust... #astrobiology #climate #microbiology #ecology #duststorm

Dust storm-driven Dispersal of Potential Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes In The Eastern Mediterranean - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The atmosphere hosts a microbiome that connects remote ecosystems but remains underexplored.

Investigation of the Rotational Spectrum of CH317OH and its Tentative Detection Toward Sagittarius B2(N) astrobiology.com/2024/07/inve... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy

Investigation of the Rotational Spectrum of CH317OH and its Tentative Detection Toward Sagittarius B2(N) - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Methanol is an abundant molecule in space. The column density of CH183OH is in some star-forming regions so high that the search for CH173OH is promising.

ESA Away Team Training: Mars In Hawaii astrobiology.com/2024/07/esa-... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #ESA #Hawaii #analog

ESA Away Team Training: Mars In Hawaii - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com [14 May 2014] Testing equipment, procedures and even human resilience for future missions to faraway planets requires inventiveness. Volunteer astronauts can spend time in hyperbaric chambers, rollerc...

Away Team Droid Tech: The PIXL Instrument on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #PIX #Mars #Biosignature @NASAPersevere

Away Team Droid Tech: The PIXL Instrument on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)is a micro-focus X-ray fluorescence spectrometer mounted on the robotic arm of NASA's Perseverance rover.

Gravitational Effect On A Cell In Bio-fluid Suspension astrobiology.com/2024/07/grav... #astrobiology #microgravity #cellbiology #spacebiology

Gravitational Effect On A Cell In Bio-fluid Suspension - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The fascination with space and human spaceflight has significantly increased in recent years.

Central Oxygen Abundances In The Spiral Galaxies Of The MaNGA Survey: Galaxies With Central Starbursts astrobiology.com/2024/07/cent... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #Interstellar

Central Oxygen Abundances In The Spiral Galaxies Of The MaNGA Survey: Galaxies With Central Starbursts - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com We examine whether there are deviations of the local central oxygen abundances in spiral galaxies from the general metallicity gradients.

Orbital View Of Pilbara, Australia Where Some Of Earth's Oldest Fossils Can Be Found astrobiology.com/2024/07/orbi... #astrobiology #Pilbara #Australi #fossil #biosignature #geology

Orbital View Of Pilbara, Australia Where Some Of Earth's Oldest Fossils Can Be Found - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old.

Tricorder Tech: Rapid, Simultaneous Detection Of Multiple Bacteria Achieved With Handheld Sensor astrobiology.com/2024/07/tric... #astrobiology

Tricorder Tech: Rapid, Simultaneous Detection Of Multiple Bacteria Achieved With Handheld Sensor - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection of such bacteria is crucial in preventing outbreaks of foodborne illness.

ESA Astronaut Away Team Practice With The Artemis HULC camera astrobiology.com/2024/07/esa-... #astrobiology #awayTeam #ESA #NASA #astronaut #Imaging #Artemis

ESA Astronaut Away Team Practice With The Artemis HULC camera - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner testing the NASA Artemis HULC camera

NASA ROSES-24 Amendment 29: New Opportunity D.20 Exoplanet Mass Measurement Program astrobiology.com/2024/07/nasa... #astrobiology #astronomy #exoplanet #NASA

NASA ROSES-24 Amendment 29: New Opportunity D.20 Exoplanet Mass Measurement Program - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com D.20 Exoplanet Mass Measurement Program (EMMP) solicits investigations

Insight Into One Of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed In A New Study astrobiology.com/2024/07/insi... #astrobiology #genomics #evolution #microbiology

Insight Into One Of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed In A New Study - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.

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Ice Planet Update: Landing A Droid On The Antarctic Seabed - Formation Of Antarctica's Ice Sheet astrobiology.com/2024/07/ice-... #astrobiology #antarctica #submersible #glacier #oceanography #globalwarming #climatechange

Ice Planet Update: Landing A Droid On The Antarctic Seabed - Formation Of Antarctica's Ice Sheet - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets.

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#OTD in 1997 #Contact hit theaters etc. I wrote this in 1997 about a visit to West Virginia, Green Bank, hanging out with Jill Tarter, and driving around radio telescopes in a diesel taxi cab. "Going Off Source: Time Away With SETI In West Virginia" astrobiology.com/2017/12/goin... #astrobiology

Away Team Practice: Sample Collection On A Hawaiian Volcano astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #Hawaii #volcano #astrogeology

Away Team Practice: Sample Collection On A Hawaiian Volcano - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com NASA-funded science team for 10 days on the lava fields of Kilauea

Away Team Droid Tech: Human-Robot Interface for Teleoperated Robotized Planetary Sample Collection and Assembly astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #robotics #rovers

Away Team Droid Tech: Human-Robot Interface for Teleoperated Robotized Planetary Sample Collection and Assembly - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com As human space exploration evolves toward longer voyages farther from our home planet, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) becomes increasingly important.

Away Team Deep-Sea Datasets: Long-Term Visual Localization Of The Eiffel Tower Hydrothermal Vent astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #submersible #HydrothermalVent #oceanography

Away Team Deep-Sea Datasets: Long-Term Visual Localization Of The Eiffel Tower Hydrothermal Vent - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Visual localization plays an important role in the positioning and navigation of robotics systems within previously visited environments. When visits occur over long periods of time, changes in the en...

Europa Clipper Astrobiology Probe Undergoes High Gain Antenna Installation astrobiology.com/2024/07/euro... #astrobiology @EuropaClipper #Europa #EuropaClipper

Europa Clipper Astrobiology Probe Undergoes High Gain Antenna Installation - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Technicians prepare to install the nearly 10 feet (3 meters) wide dish-shaped high-gain antenna to NASA’s Europa Clipper, a spacecraft to study Jupiter’s icy moon, at the agency’s Payload Hazardous Se...

Geophysical Observations Of OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Re-Entry astrobiology.com/2024/07/geop... #astrobiology #asteroid #astrogeology #astrochemistry @OSIRISREx

Geophysical Observations Of OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Re-Entry - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Sample Return Capsules (SRCs) entering Earth's atmosphere at hypervelocity from interplanetary space are a valuable resource for studying meteor phenomena.

The Nucleosynthetic Fingerprint of the Outermost Protoplanetary Disk and Early Solar System Dynamics astrobiology.com/2024/07/the-... #astrobiology #astrogeology #astrochemistry #exoplanet

The Nucleosynthetic Fingerprint of the Outermost Protoplanetary Disk and Early Solar System Dynamics - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Knowledge of the nucleosynthetic isotope composition of the outermost protoplanetary disk is critical to understand the formation and early dynamical evolution of the Solar System.

Structure-based Inference Of Eukaryotic Complexity In Asgard Archaea astrobiology.com/2024/07/stru... #astrobiology #evolution #microbiology #genomics #Archaea

Structure-based Inference Of Eukaryotic Complexity In Asgard Archaea - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Asgard archaea played a key role in the origin of the eukaryotic cell.

Early Stages Of Gap Opening By Planets In Protoplanetary Discs astrobiology.com/2024/07/earl... #astrobiology #exoplanet

Early Stages Of Gap Opening By Planets In Protoplanetary Discs - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Annular substructures in protoplanetary discs, ubiquitous in sub-mm observations, can be caused by gravitational coupling between a disc and its embedded planets.

Towards Characterising Rocky Worlds: Trends In Chemical Make-ups Of M dwarfs Versus GK dwarfs astrobiology.com/2024/07/towa... #astrobiology #exoplanet

Towards Characterising Rocky Worlds: Trends In Chemical Make-ups Of M dwarfs Versus GK dwarfs - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Elemental abundances of Sun-like stars are crucial for understanding the detailed properties of their planets.

Phase-resolving the Absorption Signatures of Water and Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with GEMINI-S/IGRINS astrobiology.com/2024/07/phas... #astrobiology #exoplanet #atmosphere

Phase-resolving the Absorption Signatures of Water and Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with GEMINI-S/IGRINS - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Ultra-hot Jupiters are among the best targets for atmospheric characterization at high spectral resolution.

Tricorder Tech: X-ray Method Enables Micron-resolution Imaging Of Living Organisms Over Long Time Periods Optica astrobiology.com/2024/07/tric... #astrobiology #tricorder #imaging #microscopy

Tricorder Tech: X-ray Method Enables Micron-resolution Imaging Of Living Organisms Over Long Time Periods - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com Researchers have developed an X-ray imaging technique that can produce detailed images of living organisms with a much lower X-ray dose than previously possible.

Away Team Droid Tech: Martian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations astrobiology.com/2024/07/away... #astrobiology #AwayTeam #droid #robot #rover #Mars

Away Team Droid Tech: Martian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com As natural access points to the subsurface, lava tubes and other caves have become premier targets of planetary missions for astrobiological analyses.

Virtual Workshop: Planetary Protection In Advance of Human Missions astrobiology.com/2024/07/virt... #astrobiology #Mars #planetaryprotection #biosafety

Virtual Workshop: Planetary Protection In Advance of Human Missions - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The Science Mission Directorate is facilitating a series of workshops aimed at discussing the priority science goals and Planetary Protection knowledge gaps that NASA should address in advance of huma...

Mars Likely Had A Cold And Icy Past astrobiology.com/2024/07/mars... #astrobiology #Mars

Mars Likely Had A Cold And Icy Past - Astrobiologyastrobiology.com The question of whether Mars ever supported life has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public for decades.