SDSU Astronomy 310: Astrobiology
Astrobiology Web Sites
Astrobiology General Resources
Astrobiology Magazine an outstanding source of information for all
things related to astrobiology.
NASA's Planet Quest and the
"Alien Safari" interactive site.
NAI: The NASA Astrobiology
Institute
Astrobiology at NASA
Astrobiology.com - The
Astrobiology Web: Your Online Guide to the Living Universe
European Space Agency: Astrobiology
Australian Centre for Astrobiology
New Scientist Magazine Special Report on Astrobiology
BBC online Science/Space/Life?
Some Videos:
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See
from the Spitzer Space Telescope. [YouTube version]
Astrobio courses at other universities:
Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Univ. of Texas, Austin
This site has a great collection of links to more information.
Scientific Search For Life course at UC Berkeley
Astrobiology curriculum from TERC: contains useful links & resources.
Extrasolar planets
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
Detecting Other Worlds: The Wobble Method
Links to Exoplanet-related sites maintained by S. Udry @ the Univ. of Geneva
University of California Planet Search Project
The Kepler Mission homepage and
Kepler @
NASA;
Using transits, this is NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size
exoplanets.
SIM: Space Interferometry Mission - Planet Detection
Specific info on epsilon Eridani
info from the Sol Company (solstation.com) for class homework. See also
their site on notable nearby
stars
Mars
Google Labs' Google Mars and a
possible figure for an exam question.
NASA's
Mars Exploration Program
Phoenix Mars Lander @ University of Arizona
Phoenix Mars Lander @ NASA
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars Exploration
Rover Mission
Mars
Express News
ESA's Mars
Express
Send your name to Mars!
(the program is now over, but the Astrobio class of Fall 2003 made it!
And here's an image of the
DVD on Mars!
The Lure of Hematite from Science@NASA
Life on Mars? A look at the Viking bio experiments. From the
Malin Space Scicence Systems.
The Viking Mission to Mars,
a comprehensive site hosted at NASA GSFC.
Viking: The Search for Life (brief notes from Astr161 class at U. Tennessee)
NASA's
2001 Mars Odyssey Mission
GRS on Odyssey Info from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer Team at the Lunar
and Planetary Laboratory @ Univ. Arizona
Mars Pathfinder
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) web site
The UK's Open University's Beagle2 web site
NASA Captures New Images of the Face on Mars
Mars Global Surveyor Face on Mars
Mars Global Surveyor Area of face on Mars
After 10 Years, Few Believe Life on Mars By Matt Crenson @
Space.com; also see
Experts Say: Little Evidence of Life on Mars.
Skeptical of
evidence for life on Mars meteorite from Spaceflight Now
Scientific American: From Mars to Earth in a Meteorite?
Scientific American: Bugs in the Data?
The famous ALH 84001 meteorite
Mars Meteorites from JPL. As of 2004, 34 meteotites from Mars have
been found.
SNC Meteorites from Wolfram Research
"How Terraforming Mars Will Work" by K. Bonsor from HowStuffWorks.
Europa and Titan
Huygens
News from ESA
The Cassini-Huygens
Mission from JPL
Listen to
Titan Sounds from the Huygens "Microphone" from the Planetary
Society
Galileo Mission: Europa
American Scientist article on Europa
"Thin ice opens lead for life on Europa" from NewScientist.com
Europa has raw materials for life - but ice layer may be very thick
from NewScientist.com
Cryobot
passes arctic test from NewScientist.com
Lake
Vostok an excellent article from Wired Magazine
Lake Vostok NSF Fact Sheet
Vital signs from Lake Vostok from NewScientist.com
Michael
Studinger's Lake Vostok Homepage
Hydrocaron seas on Titan?
"The Glitter of Distant Seas" from Science Express (originally in
Science 302, 403; 2003 Oct 17)
More on Titan's possible liquid hydrocarbon surfaces:
"Titan's Oily Lake" from Astrobiology Magazine
Methane rain falls on Titan from NewScientist.com
"Titan weather: Methane downpours and drizzle"
Titanic Moon: Prebiotic Chemistry from Saturnian Turn from
Astrobiology Magazine
Some Related Biology sites
Astrobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
BIOL 100: General Biology by Dr. Lee McClenaghan @ SDSU
Kenneth Todar's
Procaryotic Microbiology course at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison. Extensive
info. Look under the heading "Readings".
Introduction to the Archaea from UC Berkeley; plus lots of useful
links
The Bio-Web Resources for Molecular and Cell Biologists
Cell and Molecular Biology Online: online courses & textbooks
The Dynamic Cell Nucleus Lecture Series
Microbes.info - The Microbiology
Information Portal.
Largest bacterial on earth (Science News, 1999 April)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHOI In Motion: A Gallery of Animation and Video
WHOI Dive & Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla
Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research
Collapse of simple life forms & mass extinction by Dr. Peter Ward,
Univ. Washington (co-author of "Rare Earth")
SETI
Very nice collection of info on SETI from the folks at "Sky & Telescope"
Magazine
SETI at the University of California, Berkeley
SETI @ home
SETI Institute
BETA at Harvard
Discovery Release Protocol:
What will SETI do if they find an ET Intelligence?
"Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection
of Extraterrestrial Intelligence"
Are We The Galaxy's Dumbest Civilization?
From Seth Shostak, SETI Institute: "I get this question a lot, given
the fact that "intelligence" is the last word of the SETI acronym. `Is
there intelligence on Earth?' wags will ask (and by so doing, make
their query relevant). What defines a species as intelligent, and how
do SETI researchers decide?"
Gaining new respect -
Are we alone? Scientists think they can find answer an AP news
story presented about SETI by MSNBC.
This page was last updated on 2008 Jan 22.