Urability: A property of planetary bodies that can support an origin of life

D Deamer, F Cary, B Damer - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The concept of habitability is now widely used to describe zones in a solar system in which
planets with liquid water can sustain life. Because habitability does not explicitly incorporate …

Eta-Earth revisited II: Deriving a maximum number of Earth-like habitats in the Galactic Disk

M Scherf, H Lammer, L Spross - Astrobiology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
In Lammer et al.(2024), we defined Earth-like habitats (EHs) as rocky exoplanets within the
habitable zone of complex life (HZCL) on which Earth-like N2-O2-dominated atmospheres …

The structure and volume of large geysers in Yellowstone National Park, USA and the mineralogy and chemistry of their silica sinter deposits

DM Churchill, M Manga, S Hurwitz, S Peek… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Siliceous sinter is formed by biogenic and abiogenic opal deposition around hot springs and
geysers. Using Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry we generated three-dimensional …

Zircon trace element evidence for early hydrothermal activity on Mars

J Gillespie, AJ Cavosie, D Fougerouse, CL Ciobanu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Finding direct evidence for hydrous fluids on early Mars is of interest for understanding the
origin of water on rocky planets, surface processes, and conditions essential for habitability …

Could Life Have Started on Mars? Planetary Conditions That Assemble and Destroy Protocells

FCA Cary, DW Deamer, BF Damer, SA Fagents… - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Early Mars was likely habitable, but could life actually have started there? While cellular life
emerged from prebiotic chemistry through a pre-Darwinian selection process relevant to …

Assembling Primitive Cells under Martian Geochemical Conditions: Implications for the Origin and Survivability of Life on Early Mars

FCA Cary - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Mars has been a focus for decades of investigation, as a place in the solar system that could
have been habitable for life as we know it. Despite being habitable early in its history, it is …