NASA DARES to Establish an Astrobiology-Specific Technology Development Program
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NASA DARES to Establish an Astrobiology-Specific Technology Development Program

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Science Division, Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Astrobiology Program are recommended by the Agnostic Life Finding Association (ALFA) to establish a competitive, highly-focused, science-requirements-driven technology development program to advance astrobiological instrumentation towards and beyond Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6.
March 21, 2025Posted inAstrobiology, Life on Mars, Mars, NASA, Single ScoopsNo Comments
Searching for Unambiguous Signs of Extant Life on Mars with the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF)
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Searching for Unambiguous Signs of Extant Life on Mars with the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF)

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Mars Exploration Program (MEP) are recommended by the Agnostic Life Finding Association (ALFA) to produce a focused investigation to seek unambiguous signs of extant life within the Martian subsurface ice, in this decade, by deploying the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) in concordance with planned water-mining operations on Mars.
March 17, 2025Posted inAstrobiology, Life on Mars, Mars, NASA, Single ScoopsNo Comments
How to Search for Unambiguous Signs of Extant Life on Mars with NASA-DARES 2025
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How to Search for Unambiguous Signs of Extant Life on Mars with NASA-DARES 2025

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Mars Exploration Program (MEP) are recommended by Agnostic Life Finding Association (ALFA) to produce a focused investigation to seek unambiguous signs of extant life within the Martian subsurface ice, in this decade, as a Discovery-class mission or by deploying an astrobiology payload in concordance with planned water-mining operations on Mars.
March 11, 2025Posted inAstrobiology, Life on Mars, Mars, NASA, Single ScoopsNo Comments
Prioritize the Search for Extant Life on Mars with NASA-DARES 2025
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Prioritize the Search for Extant Life on Mars with NASA-DARES 2025

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Mars Exploration Program (MEP) are hereby recommended by Christopher Temby and Agnostic Life Finding Association to ensure that the highest priority science objective in the coming decade for the 2025 Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (NASA-DARES 2025) is a search for an extant Martian biosphere before human arrival.
February 10, 2025Posted inAstrobiology, Life on Mars, Mars, NASA, Single ScoopsNo Comments
IMPRESS to Deliver Art and Science to Mars
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IMPRESS to Deliver Art and Science to Mars

The image depicts a concept art: a five meters tall titanium penetrator imbedded in the Martian soil. The scientific payload and cameras broadcasting statue's selfies reside in the half-buried pedestal. Long after the science mission ends, this statue will serve as a landscape feature and a message to the future generations.
September 20, 2024Posted inAstrobiology, Life, Life on Mars, MarsNo Comments
Interplanetary lawn darts to study extant life in Martian subsurface ice
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Interplanetary lawn darts to study extant life in Martian subsurface ice

A proposal to search for life on Mars using kinetic penetrators, embedding probes into Martian ice through hard landing. This life-finding mission concept is low-cost and accessible to many private organizations, allowing to seek and study Mars biosphere by multiple entities before we send humans there.
October 17, 2023Posted inAstrobiology, Life on MarsNo Comments
Science, Hype, and Prebiotic Chemistry
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Science, Hype, and Prebiotic Chemistry

Commenting on our report that basalt glass catalyzes formation of polyribonucleic acid, Jack Szostak found it "very frustrating that the authors have made an interesting initial findings but then decided to go with the hype rather than the science". This offers an opportunity to discuss classical chemical structure proof, and the timing of scientific publications.
June 18, 2022Posted inAstrobiology, Life, Origin of Life, Single Scoops6 Comments