NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered new “tough” organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks on Mars, increasing the chances that the record of habitability and potential life could have been preserved on the Red Planet, despite extremely harsh conditions on the surface that can easily break down organic molecules.
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Ram Krishnamurthy of Scripps. He will present, "Reconciling Prebiotic Chemistry with Biological Chemistry - Destiny versus Destination in Origins of Life Research."
The AGU Fall Meeting 2016 will take place in San Francisco, CA from December 12-17. Many staff members and postdoctoral associates from the Geophysical Laboratory will attend this year.
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The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Carl Agee from the University of New Mexico. He will present, "NWA 7034 aka Black Beauty: Unique Water-rich Meteorite from Ancient Mars."
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Shogo Tachibana from Hokkaido University, Japan. He will present, "Early evolution of the Solar System: Laboratory experiments and sample return missions."
Andrew Steele uses traditional and biotechnological approaches for the detection of microbial life in astrobiology and solar system exploration. He received a Ph.D. in biotechnology from the University of Portsmouth, U.K. in 1996, and a B.S.
The Geophysical Laboratory's Zack Gaballe and Rajasekarakumar Vadapoo and DTM's Miki Nakajima, Erika Nesvold, and Johanna Teske will host "The Second Annual GL/DTM Poster Session"* on Wednesday, 18 May 2016, in the Tuve Dining Hall.
Washington, DC— A team of scientists including Carnegie’s Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-rich rock called chert found in Western Australia are the planet’s oldest fossils.
Washington, DC—After extensive analyses by a team of scientists led by Carl Agee at the University of New Mexico, researchers have identified a new class of Martian meteorite that likely originated from Mars’s crust.
