Francesca Cary
A5058074474- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2022-2024
University of Hawaii System
2022
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z instrument provides high-resolution stereo and multispectral images with a unique combination of spatial resolution, coverage, wavelength coverage along the rover's traverse in Jezero crater, Mars. Images reveal rocks consistent an igneous (including volcanic and/or volcaniclastic) impactite origin limited aqueous alteration, including polygonally fractured weathered coatings; massive boulder-forming bedrock consisting mafic silicates, ferric oxides, iron-bearing...
The 2-week, virtual Future of the Search for Life science and engineering workshop brought together more than 100 scientists, engineers, technologists in March April 2022 to provide their expert opinion on interconnections between life-detection technology. Participants identified advances measurement sampling technologies they believed be necessary perform situ searches life elsewhere our Solar System, 20 years or future. Among suggested measurements these searches, those pertaining three...
The concept of habitability is now widely used to describe zones in a solar system which planets with liquid water can sustain life. Because does not explicitly incorporate the origin life, this article proposes new word-urability-which refers conditions that allow life begin. utility word tested by applying it combinations multiple geophysical and geochemical factors support plausible localized are conducive chemical reactions molecular assembly processes required for urable worlds,...
Early Mars was likely habitable, but could life actually have started there? While cellular emerged from prebiotic chemistry through a pre-Darwinian selection process relevant to both Earth and Mars, each planet posed unique ‘hurdles’ this process. We focus on drivers of in generic Earth-like worlds specific such as an iron-rich surface. Iron, calcium, magnesium cations are abundant hydrothermal settings promising environment for origin life. investigated the impact stability disruption...