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Water, Water Everywhere, But Where Will We Find Life?
Dr. Mary A. VoytekSenior Scientist AstrobiologyNASA Headquarters
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Astrobiology is not:
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Knowledge of Space Environments
Knowledge of the Evolution of Earth’s Biosphere and
Organisms
Where did we come from?Are we alone? or,
Is there anybody else out there?
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What can we learn about searching for life, by studying Earth microbiomes?
1. Life is metabolically diverse(it eats everything and breathes everything)
2. Life is tough(it can live and thrive under extreme conditions)
3. Life is tenacious(it can survive long periods under adverse conditions)
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The X-philes: microorganisms at the extremes
Definitions of Extreme Environments:• Extreme environments are those that would not support “normal” biological life forms or are conditions “nominal” for a given biochemistry. May be tolerated at the expense of diversity, abundance, productivity.
• It is important to note that the definition of "extreme" in this context is anthropocentric; from the point of view of the organism, its environment is completely normal.
• Extreme environments are those which require significant modification of organisms living in them from their immediate ancestors.
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Hottest: 121oCMicrobes that live in hot/very hot environments like hydrothermal vents, volcanic lakes, hot springs
THERMOPHILES/HYPERTHERMOPHILES:
Grand Prismatic Spring
The X-philes: microorganisms at the extremes
Boiling water 100 °CHot Coffee 85°CRecord Japan 42.7 /41.1 °COnsen <40 oC
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Coldest: Cell replication >5o F (-15oC)Cell metabolism (-25oC)Cell survival (-40-??oC)
PSYCHROPHILES:Microbes that live in cold environments like sea ice, permafrost, ice veins in glacial ice
The X-philes: microorganisms at the extremes
Refrigerator 39 °F, 4 °CFreezer 0 °F, -18 °CAsahikawa -40°CDry Ice -109 °F, -78 °C
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Great Salt Lake with salt concentrations many times greater than that of seawater, >3.5%
HALOPHILES:Microbes that live in salty environmentslike salt lakes and salt mines
Saltiest: 30% saltOr 30 times human blood saltiness. Haloarcula
The X-philes: microorganisms at the extremes
Blood 0 .9%
Pickle Juice 2%
Seawater 3.5%
Dead Sea 33%
Colonies isolated from GSL contain carotenoids that contribute to photoprotection, allowing the cells to live in intense UV.
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The Search for Life: Start with a Search for Habitats
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Life?Water
CHNOPS Energy
Ingredients of Life
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Water, water everywhere, but does life only exist on Earth?
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Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean
12 billion light-years away
Bradford, JPL
APM 08279+5255,
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Habitable Zones of Planetary Systems
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Mars Has Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water
We know Mars has water but the question is how much and for how long?• Result: Today Mars has only
13% of the water it once had losing 87%
• Mars must have kept that water for >1.5 BY
Mars had a significant Ocean
20% of the planet would be covered with water to a maximum depth of 1 mile
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Recurring Slope Lineae in Equatorial Regions of Mars(McEwen et al., Nature Geoscience, 2014)
MRO HiRISE / U. Arizona / JPL / NASA
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Evidence for transient habitable niches
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Habitable Zones of Planetary Systems
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Ocean Worlds
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Earth Ice-covered moons
Ocean Worlds
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J.Cook/H. Perlman/K. Hand
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Titan
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Life as we do not know it.
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
• Theoretical biochemistry Based on a non polar solvent chemistry E.g. Tholins, Steroids and terpenoids,
• Energy transduction via acetylene
• Would function at very low temperatures (around -179 Celsius)
• Includes a self-sustaining, replicating, catalytic organic chemistry that might be called life
• Vinyl Cyanide observedNear-infrared, color mosaic from NASA's Cassini JPL/NASA
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DragonflyDragonfly is a dual-quadcopter rotorcraft lander to explore prebiotic chemistry and habitability at dozens of sites on Saturn’s moon Titan
Aerial mobility provides access to Titan's diverse materials in different geologic
settings, tens to hundreds of kilometers apart
Dragonfly takes advantage of Titan's unique organic laboratory to understand how far chemistry can progress in environments that provide key ingredients for life
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Known Solar Systems in the Night Sky
• When you look out at night – you can’t see them but now you know that the planets of other solar systems are there
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Nearest Earths?
The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.
Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.
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Habitable Worlds Beyond our Solar System
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ARIEL
ALMASUBARU
Determong habitability and habitation
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Not Searching for Life on Earth
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Searching for Life on Mars
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Temperature limits of cell division and other metabolic activity in terrestrial microbes
Temperature limits of cell division and other metabolic activity in terrestrial microbes
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Energetic coupling in biological metabolism, where electrons from fuels (including various inorganic compounds) are transferred to oxidants with the generation of metabolic energy.
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Questions?
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