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Astro biology

http:// awesomewallpapers.files.wordpress.com /. Svetlana Shkolyar PhD student, Arizona State University. Astro biology. Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA . Anyone Out There? Themes of Astrobiology. http:// nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov /. Presentation courtesy of:.

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Astro biology

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  1. http://awesomewallpapers.files.wordpress.com/ Svetlana Shkolyar PhD student, Arizona State University Astrobiology

  2. Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA Anyone Out There?Themes of Astrobiology http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/ Presentation courtesy of:

  3. Star Formation • Stars provide the climate for planets • Star mass • Lifetime • Temperature • Analog: our sun Astronomy

  4. Hunt for Exoplanets http://kepler.nasa.gov/ Astronomy Image credit: NASA/Tim Pyle Artist conception of Kepler Mission

  5. How Many of These Worlds Have the “Right” Environment?? What does“Right” mean? • Small, rocky planet • That has a heat source • And an atmosphere What we’re really looking for is… Earth Sciences/Geology

  6. Liquid Water! Why water? • All life (that we’ve discovered) on Earth requires liquid water to thrive • Good solvent for transporting nutrients, etc. Chemistry

  7. How Many Habitable Planets Develop Any Life Forms? Start with what we know: Our Solar System Just 1 that we know of - Earth! Biology/Chemistry Algae Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

  8. Brief Interlude… Wait! What does this all have to do with my (and my team’s) work here at ASU?

  9. http://astrobiology.asu.edu/

  10. My “tough” job… Searching For Biosginatures Fossilizedfluorescent fecal pellets… Clues to life on Mars?

  11. My journey to Astrobiology…

  12. How Many Habitable Planets Develop Any Life Forms? Start with what we know: Our Solar System Just 1 that we know of - Earth! Biology/Chemistry Algae Photo by Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman

  13. Intelligence • Does life always become more complex over time? • Analogues for E.T. intelligence • Animals • Computers • Robots Animal Science/AI/Robotics Photo credit: from the IMAX® film Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees/Courtesy Science Museum of Minnesota

  14. Communicating Civilizations ? • We have sent and received messages to deep space • Is anyone now or ever going to receive them and answer? Engineering/Astronomy/Creativity!

  15. Lifetime of a Civilization How long will we survive? [Cue the doomsday scenario… now!] Sustainability

  16. Take-Home Messages • Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary framework to study fundamental questions about our origins • A career in astrobiology can be achieved through any of the home disciplines it spans • Astrobiology makes it easy to inspire kids to like science

  17. Thanks! Feel free to contact me! Svetlana Shkolyar: sshkolya@asu.edu

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