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Remote Spectral Characterization of Terrestrial Life Forming Environments for Planetary Exploration

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The primary objective of this research is to utilize Earth analogs of planetary environments to improve our understanding of the formation, evolution and preservation of these environments, including their potential to support life, and apply that understanding to search for life elsewhere in the solar system.

Please visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) webpage for this NASA project:
http://analogs.jpl.nasa.gov/

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