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... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Origins Roadmap As part of the NASA strategic planning process, the Origins theme in the Office of Space Science's Astronomy and Physics Division recently revised its roadmap.2 Topics that overlap with the enterprise of astrobiology are woven throughout the document. Among the high-level questions to be addressed are these: Where did we come from?
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... The Cosmochemistry program supports sample-focused research projects that promote exploration of our solar system or that develop techniques for such further exploration. The projects include measurements of mineral compositions, major and trace element chemistry, isotopic compositions, radiometric ages, magnetism, and radiation exposure effects; petrologic studies of extraterrestrial materials and laboratory studies of phase stability, chemical partitioning, and other processes necessary to interpret planetary data; and the synthesis of previously obtained geochemical data.
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... RIDGE 2000 The Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments (RIDGE) program6 is designed to support research aimed at understanding the geological, chemical, biological, and physical oceanographic interactions between the oceans and hydrothermal circulation of seawater through the ocean crust.
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... EANA is affiliated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Collaborative research areas in Europe's astrobiology network include cosmochemistry, star and planetary formation, the chemistry of the origin of life, terrestrial life as a reference, and the search for habitats and signatures of life beyond Earth.
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