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Recognizing life in the Solar System: guidance from meteoritic organic matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2006

Mark A. Sephton  and
Oliver Botta
Mark A. Sephton
Affiliation:
Impacts and Astromaterials Research Centre, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ e-mail: m.a.sephton@imperial.ac.uk
Oliver Botta
Affiliation:
GEST NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 699, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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Abstract

In the next decade, numerous space missions will attempt to detect organic matter on planets and other objects in the Solar System. Recognizing carbon-based life or its remains will be a fundamental goal of future missions. In preparation, studies of organic matter in meteorites are enabling scientists how to discriminate between biogenic and abiogenic materials.

Keywords

meteoritesmoleculesorganic matterorigin of lifespace missions
Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 4 , Issue 3-4 , October 2005 , pp. 269 - 276
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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