Astrobiology

Testing the H₂O₂-H₂O Hypothesis for Life on Mars with the TEGA Instrument on the Phoenix Lander

Discovery of Abundant Cellulose Microfibers Encased in 250 Ma Permian Halite: A Macromolecular Target in the Search for Life on Other Planets

Analysis of Underivatized Amino Acids in Geological Samples Using Ion-Pairing Liquid Chromatography and Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry

On the Survivability and Detectability of Terrestrial Meteorites on the Moon

Glycine Identification in Natural Jarosites Using Laser Desorption Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Iron-Sulfur World and Its Relevance to Life's Origins

Rate Measurements of the Hydrolysis of Complex Organic Macromolecules in Cold Aqueous Solutions: Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry on the Early Earth and Titan

The Astrobiology Science Conference, 2008

AbSciCon 2008 Plenary Events

Session 2. Advances in Astrobiological Instrumentation Development

Session 3. Approaches and Technologies to Detect Life on Mars

Session 4. Astrobiology and Lunar Exploration

Session 5. Astrobiology and the Human Exploration of Mars

Session 6. Astrobiology Missions on Small Satellites, Sounding Rockets, and Balloons

Session 7. Astrovirology

Session 8. Biological and Environmental Signatures in Archean Rocks

Session 9. Certified Organic: Astrobiology and the Latest Developments in Organic Geochemistry, Biochemistry, and Organic Assays

Session 10. Chemical and Biological Determinants of Habitability

Session 11. Chemical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds

Session 12. Comets and Primitive Asteroids: Their Role in Supplying Water and Prebiotic Organics to Early Earths

Session 13. The Deep Cold Biosphere? Interior Processes of Icy Satellites and Dwarf Planets

Session 14. Earth Analog Studies for Astobiology: ASTEP and Beyond

Session 15. The Evolution of the Biogeochemical Cycling of Phosphorus and Other Bioessential Elements

Session 16. Extraterrestrial Organic Chemistry—Biological, Pre-Biological, and Abiological

Session 17. Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets

Session 18. Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats

Session 19. Future SETI: Technologies, Techniques, and Strategies

Session 20. Getting Smarter About Intelligence

Session 21. The Habitable Galaxy: Variation in Space and Time

Session 22. Habitability of Super-Earths

Session 23. Laboratory Analogue Environments for Studying Geochemical and Biological Processes on Planetary Surfaces

Session 24. Inorganic and Organic Biosignatures in Minerals

Session 25. Is the Universe Optimally Right for Life?

Session 26. Mars Sample Return Planning Issues

Session 27. Methane and Life?

Session 28. Microbial Life in Terrestrial Arid Environments

Session 29. The New Mars: Habitability of a Neighbor World

Session 30. Planetary Protection Constraints for Future Exobiology Missions

Session 31. Spectra of Asteroid Belts, Kuiper Belts, and Giant Planets

Session 32. Stardust: Organic Matter in Comet 81P/Wild 2

Session 33. Subsurface Microorganisms in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments

Session 34. Synthetic Cells and Life's Origins

Session 35. Teaching Astrobiology to Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Session 36. Water and Life: Redefining the Habitable Zone of Terrestrial Planets

Session 37. Origin of Life

Session 38. Evolution

Session 39. Life in Extreme Environments

Author—Abstract Number Index

AbSciCon08 Abstract Number Index