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The NASA Astrobiology Institute the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate Johnson Space center and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science supported this research.
In 2002 a team led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell at the University of Edinburgh UK discovered a unique group of cyanobacteria in Haughton crater in northern Canada.
The team's findings provide the first direct evidence that crystal cocoons formed by impacts might have been radiation-proof cradles for early life (International Journal of Astrobiology doi. org/tcs.
However Cassini team member Carolyn Porco at the Space science Institute in Boulder Colorado has written a paper (soon to appear in the journal Astrobiology) arguing for a mission to collect samples from Enceladus and return them to Earth.
Astrobiologists have wondered long whether life or its ingredients could have travelled to Earth on the back of a comet or asteroid.
Christopher P Mckay, an astrobiologist at Nasa's Ames Research center in Mountain view, California, does not think the RSLS are a very promising place to Look for the water to be liquid
in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil
while also having applications in nanotechnology. his research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570).
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570.
"NASA has made the search for life in space a major focus and sponsors the UW-Madison Astrobiology Institute,
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