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Outer Space, Under Water
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/19/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman is spending a week alongside members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) in British Columbia, Canada. In Bortman´s fifth report, he talks with astronauts participating in PLRP. |
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The Big Question: Biology or Chemistry?
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/15/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman is spending a week alongside members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) in British Columbia, Canada. In Bortman´s fourth field report, he discusses work being done to determine the role biology plays in forming the Pavilion Lake microbialites. |
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What Do You Call a Microbialite?
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/05/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s field research editor Henry Bortman is spending a week alongside members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) in British Columbia, Canada. In this third field report, he discusses the ongoing effort to classify the lake´s microbialites. |
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On the Beach with the Gaviators
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/03/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s Henry Bortman is spending a week alongside members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP). This second field report describes the glitches and problems researchers have had to overcome so that their "Gavia" robotic vehicles can explore the lake as planned. |
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Flying the North Basin
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/01/10 |
| Astrobiology Magazine´s Henry Bortman is in the field this week alongside members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP). The scientists are studying microbialites, carbonate structures that are usually not found in freshwater lakes. This report looks at the complex process of communicating with scientists as they explore underwater. |
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Probing Pavilion Lake
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
06/24/10 |
| A team of scientists and astronauts return this week to Pavilion Lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The scientists will be continuing their effort to understand what role biology plays in forming the strange structures that line the lakebed, while the astronauts will be learning how to do field science. |
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Methane Eaters at Lost Hammer
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
06/08/10 |
| Scientists have discovered methane-eating bacteria that survive in a highly unique spring located on a remote Island in northern Canada. In some ways, the spring could be similar to environments on past or present Mars. |
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Water, Water Everywhere, but Not All Drops Have Life
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
05/20/10 |
| The search for life on other planets focuses on water, but researchers argue that – judging from our own planet – a large fraction of water conditions may be inhospitable to life. |
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Shrimp Under Ice
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
03/20/10 |
| While taking the first images of the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists have made a surprising discovery. They captured video of a complex, shrimp-like animal swimming through the cold and dark subglacial waters. |
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How to Live Long and Prosper in Space
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
02/10/10 |
| Lichens can live in some of Earth's most extreme environments, and now one has survived 18 months in Earth orbit while exposed to the space environment. The lichens were flown outside the European Columbus laboratory on the ISS as part of the Expose-E experiment. |
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