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Biologist Roger Payne has died. His
#whale
song recordings are on
#NASA
Voyager golden records in
#interstellar
space & used in
#StarTrek
IV He founded
@ProjectCETI
which seeks to foster interspecies communication
#Astrobiology
#SETI
#OceanMonth
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A painting about exploring under the ice of Europa by Robert McCall
#Astrobiology
FYI
@RPappalardo
@Alienoceans
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There is now life on two worlds in our solar system. A cotton seed has sprouted inside Change4's greenhouse on the far side of the Moon.
#Change4
#astrobiology
#spacebiology
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. Thats where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life
#CarlSagan
#280characters
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According to
@NASAScienceAA
"
@EuropaClipper
has unequivocably passed its latest review".
#astrobiology
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According to the
#NASA
briefing: "This stuff is an astrobiologist's dream!"
The
#OSIRISREx
#Bennu
#Asteroid
Sample Contains Carbon And Water
#Astrobiology
#Astrochemistry
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Identification Of One Of The First Multicellular Algae Thanks To Its Chlorophyll Fossilized For One Billion Years
#astrobiology
#Microbiology
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Where Your Elements Came From
#astrobiology
#astrochemistry
#astronomy
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This poster visualizes over 800 known exoplanets believed to be rocky or terrestrial, arranged by the amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like. see: Halcyon Maps
#astrobiology
#exoplanet
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The next time
@NASA
sends an
#astrobiology
mission to
#Mars
it might consider another parachute design ...
#CountdownToMars
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Note the similarity in how humans communicate across time via star maps: (L) stone tablet from 650 BC library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq. (R) Voyager record from 1970s now traversing
#interstellar
space on the twin Voyagers.
#SETI
#Technosignature
#astrobiology
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This is
#Pluto
on 14 Jul 2015 as
@NASANewHorizons
flew past. It may have a subsurface ocean. We're sending
#astrobiology
probes to ocean worlds in the Jovian system to study their possible habitability. Maybe we should go back and visit Pluto - and stay for a while.
@AlanStern
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A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI Projects
#Astrobiology
#SETI
#CarlSagan
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Earliest TV mention of
#astrobiology
? "Return To Tomorrow" 9 Feb 1968:
KIRK: "Who are you?"
MULHALL: "Doctor Ann Mulhall, Astrobiology"
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Planetary Protection talk at
@NASA
Lunar Exploration Analysis Group Annual Meeting underway - webex 635 191 404
#LEAG2017
#astrobiology
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500 million stars at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy - How many life-bearing worlds are in this picture?
#Astrobiology
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Astrobiology Spinoff: NASA Funded Research Used Tardigrade Proteins To Make A Human Health Breakthrough
#Astrobiology
#Tardigrade
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Soon we could have 4 rovers on
#Mars
from
@NASA
@ESA
& China - all engaged in
#Astrobiology
research. This is unprecedented. Last time we did something like this was Viking 44 years ago. Let's hope that all 4 efforts can be coordinated for a global audience
#ArtemisGeneration
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Phosphine Detected In The Atmosphere of Venus - An Indicator of Possible Life?
#Venus
#Astrochemistry
#Astrobiology
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Two Of Uranus’ Moons May Harbor Active Oceans, Radiation Data Suggests
#astrobiology
#Uranus
#LPSC2023
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This poster visualizes over 800 known exoplanets believed to be rocky or terrestrial, arranged by the amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like. see: Halcyon Maps
#astrobiology
#exoplanet
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Phosphine Detected In The Atmosphere of Venus - An Indicator of Possible Life?
#Venus
#Astrobiology
#Astrochemistry
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An
#Earthling
olm salamander (Proteus anguinus) is blind, lives for 100 yrs, can sense electric & magnetic fields, can go for 10 yrs without eating/moving. What sort of adaptations will we find on worlds where habitable conditions come and go? Let's find out.
#Astrobiology
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How Are Tardigrades So ‘Indestructible?’ Scientists Finally Have an Explanation
#astrobiology
#extremophile
#tardigrade
@tardigradopedia
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From the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research site Facebook page: "We at the MCM are absolutely devastated to have to pass the news on that our close friend and colleague, Diana Wall
@DianaWallSoil
passed away on March 26."
#Antarctica
#Astrobiology
#ecology
#LTER
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JAXA: Soil from asteroid shows it has ingredients for creating life
#astrobiology
#astrochemistry
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This is what happens when a biologist sees a tardigrade and then sees the vaulted ceiling of a gothic cathedral. They see similarities.
#astrobiology
#tardigrades
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Testing Hardware For Potential Future Astrobiology Mission Landing On Europa
#Astrobiology
#Europa
#NASA
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- An
#Earthling
: Diatom (Britanica)
- Something made by Earthlings: Strasbourg Cathedral (Wikipedia)
- Something making things that make Earthlings: supernova 1993J (NASA)
- Something containing lots of supernovas: Hoag's Object (NASA)
#Astrobiology
#OverviewEffect
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Tardigrades can survive exposure to deep cold, high radiation, vacuum of space. And they can swim.
#astrobiology
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Towards RNA Life On Early Earth: From Atmospheric HCN To Biomolecule Production In Warm Little Ponds
#astrobiology
#astrochemistry
#genomics
#biochemistry
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Asteroid (101955) Bennu In The Laboratory: Properties Of The Sample Collected By OSIRIS-REx
#astrobiology
@OSIRISREx
#asteroid
#astrochemistry
#astrogeology
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Unlikely you'll hear anyone claim at
@RoyalAstroSoc
that they've discovered life on
#Venus
. Rather, they've found chemistry that current thinking would most likely suggest a biotic source. Just watch as organic chemists pop up with many feasible abiotic explanations
#Astrobiology
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A
#tardigrade
initiating anhydrobiosis (tun stage).
An active contraction occurs with total invagination of cephalic segments and legs.
#Extremophiles
#Astrobiology
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Webb Space Telescope Maps Surprisingly Large Plume Jetting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
#astrobiology
#JWST
#Enceladus
#Saturn
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From
#EDENISS
: "Imagine being in Antarctica, sitting in a greenhouse, full of several nice smelling crops. Enjoy the moment, Jess!"
#greenhouse
#crops
#madeinantarctica
#spaceag
#spacebiology
#astrobiology
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Researchers Describe New Tardigrade Fossil Found In 16 Million Year Old Domincan Amber
#astrobiology
#fossil
#paleontology
#tardigrade
#extremophile
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The earliest TV mention of
#astrobiology
? Apparently it was on
#StarTrek
Season 2 Episode 20 "Return To Tomorrow" which first aired on 9 Feb 1968:
KIRK: "Who are you?"
MULHALL: "Doctor Ann Mulhall, Astrobiology"
Oh yes - Happy Birthday to actress Diana Muldaur!
#StarTrekTOS
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Investigating Europa’s Habitability with the Europa Clipper
#astrobiology
#Europa
#astrochemistry
@EuropaClipper
@NASAJuno
@ESA_JUICE
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A copy of "Planetary Astrobiology" by Victoria Meadows, Giada Arney, Britney Schmidt, David Des Marais just arrived!
#astrobiology
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Today is
#WorldWaterDay
on our planet. Here are some examples of the water worlds in our solar system via
@PlanetaryHabLab
What sorts of
#exoplanet
water worlds will we find in other star systems? Let's find out.
#Astrobiology
#Oceanography
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How Archaea, The Third Form Of Earth Life, Makes Energy
#astrobiology
#AbGradCon2024
#Astro4Life
#microbiology
#genomics
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This poster shows 800+ known rocky/terrestrial
#exoplanets
arranged by amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes, an idea what they might look like. From Halcyon Maps
#astrobiology
#exoplanet
#LPSC
#LPSC24
#LPSC2024
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Fermi Paradox: Here’s What an Alien Civilization Settling the Galaxy Looks Like
#SETI
#astrobiology
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Away Team Discovers Earth's Deepest Fish
#AwayTeam
#Astrobiology
#Submersible
#ROV
FYI
@Dylan
Taylor
@AlanStern
@VictorVescovo
@RichardGarriott
@vobonline
@AstroDocScott
@minwadhwa
@ExplorersClub
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Venus’ Atmospheric Chemistry and Cloud Characteristics Are Compatible with Venusian Life
#astrobiology
#Venus
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Using Tardigrades to Identify Biological Countermeasures to Stress during Multigenerational Spaceflight
#astrobiology
#spacebiology
#tardigrade
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Long-Term Survivability of Tardigrade Paramacrobiotus experimentalis (Eutardigrada)at Increased Magnesium Perchlorate Levels: Implications for Astrobiological Research
#astrobiology
#tardigrade
#extremophile
#Mars
#toxicology
@tardigradopedia
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Tryptophan, An Amino Acid Essential For Life, Has Been Found In Interstellar Space
#astrochemistry
#Interstellar
#Astronomy
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At an event sponsored by
@Redwire
Mike Gold introduced a video of
@AnsonMount
aka Captain Pike reading a message from
#NASA
- "Our Dream Is Star Trek" written by Mike and
@Blal
Bhavya Lal - video starts at 4:15 into the video.
#StarTrek
#StrangeNewWorlds
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One year ago today
@NASA
landed a huge droid named
#Perseverance
on
#Mars
and it has been driving around doing
#Astrobiology
research ever since.
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An
#Earthling
𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘤𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢 by Eric Cho
@cho_fungi
Taiwan What colors and shapes will life take on the worlds we will one day explore? Let's find out.
#Astrobiology
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I am Generation Equality: Betul Kacar, astrobiologist in search of life in the Universe
#astrobiology
@betulland
@KacarLab
@ELSI_Origins
@saganorg
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Scaling
#Earthlings
in an
#Astrobiology
-
#OverviewEffect
context
- A Nebulae Zoo - Cora A. Harris
- An exoplanet zoo - Martin Vargic
- The range of human faces - Anthropology of the Crowd
- A diatom zoo - JOIDES Resolution
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Cambrian lobopodians shed light on the origin of the tardigrade body plan
#Astrobiology
#Tardigrade
#Evolution
#PNAS
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#OTD
18 May 1979 The Viking 2 Lander which, along with its twin Viking 1, was sent by
@NASA
to search for life on
#Mars
took this image of water ice frost on the surface at Utopia Planitia
#astrobiology
#astrogeology
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Hundreds Of Hydrothermal Chimneys Discovered On The Seafloor Off The Pacific Northwest
#oceanography
#hydrothermal
#astrobiology
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"Webb could show us life on a nearby planet" -
@jilltarter
on
@CNN
discussing "The Hunt For Planet B" about
@NASAWebb
which airs on CNN Saturday at 9:00 pm ET -- FYI
@Dr_ThomasZ
#JWST
#Astrobiology
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Phosphorus - A Key Building Block For life - Found On Enceladus
#astrobiology
#astrochemistry
#genomics
#enceladus
#oceanworld
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The composer
#Vangelis
has died. To many of us his music is intimately linked to the words of
#CarlSagan
and
#Cosmos
.
#AdAstra
#astrobiology
#AbSciCon2022
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First mention of
#Astrobiology
on TV:
#StarTrekDay
data "Return to Tomorrow' (1967)
KIRK: Who are you?
MULHALL: Doctor Ann Mulhall, Astrobiology. Well, I was ordered to report here for landing party duty.
#StarTrekDay
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If one of the other sentient intelligent species on Earth (cetaceans) made a 2-D map of our home planet it would likely look much more like the singular global ocean-bearing water world that it actually is (Spilhaus Projection 1942)
#Astrobiology
#Oceanography
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Look at this small lightning bolt's impact. Imagine the impact of lightning on a global scale with regard to the formation of various chemical compounds a young, potentially habitable planet.
#astrobiology
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Oceanography Of Ice-Covered Moons
#astrobiology
#Europa
#astrochemistry
@EuropaClipper
@NASAJuno
@ESA_JUICE
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What aquatic body shapes might be found by missions to oceans of Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Triton or worlds in other star systems? Would there be convergent evolution in terms of shape & locomotion or different forms altogether? Let's find out.
#Astrobiology
A stonka 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑧𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑠 sp. filmed last night at 4800m water depth in the Pacific. Plenty of xenophyophores in the background too
#deeplycurious
#inkfishexplore
@uwanews
@BiolSci_UWA
@deepseauwa
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An
#Earthling
- Deinococcus radiodurans can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid, and therefore is known as a polyextremophile.
#Astrobiology
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"They should have sent a poet". What if their message (primer) was musical?
#SETI
#Astrobiology
#Contact
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"Arrival" is a stunning movie that you must see -- especially if you have an interest in
#Astrobiology
and
#SETI
--
#ArrivalMovie
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'Tatooine-like' Exoplanet Spotted By Ground-based Telescope
#Astrobiology
#exoplanet
#extrasolar
#StarWars
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ICYMI
@tardigradopedia
-
@hbhammel
is an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the James Webb Telescope Project - focus is on "Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life".
#JWST
#Astrobiology
#tardigrade
"TFW you realize that molecular clouds in the Carina Nebula are indistinguishable from tardigrades" - me, back in 2019. Still bemused.
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We find life around hydrothermal vents on Earth. What kinds of vents on the worlds we have yet to explore will harbor life? Let's find out. Pic: Ice tower that grew up around a steam vent on Mt. Erebus,
#Antarctica
by George Steinmetz via
@Smithsonian
#Astrobiology
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Reading "The Teeming Universe: An Extraterrestrial Field Guide: An Exploration & Journey to Worlds Beyond the Solar System" by Christian Cline
@ChrCline
- A wonderful book that envisions "Natural History" expeditions to other habitable worlds. Review to follow.
#Astrobiology
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Voyager 1 Interstellar Probe Resumes Sending Engineering Updates To Earth
#astrobiology
#interstellar
#VGER
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How Were Amino Acids Formed Before The Origin Of Life On Earth?
#astrobiology
#astrochemistry
#Ryugu
#meteorite
#genomics
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