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11/11/2010
If alien life exists in our solar system, it may look like this
National Geographic
Pictures of deep-sea vents hidden below ice offer some of our first looks at creatures thriving in conditions akin to those on watery moons.
12/29/2018
How Hawaii's Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life on Saturn's Icy Moon
Gizmodo
Kilauea’s historically huge 2018 eruption didn’t just transform the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island. Most of the lava wound up spilling into the ocean, creating an enormous new undersea delta that hardy ocean microbes are already colonizing.
9/12/2018
To find life on other planets, scientists are exploring submerged volcanoes on Earth
Boston Globe
Julie Huber, WHOI, inside the Inner Space Center Mission Control area at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett. NASA is preparing for future space missions by exploring underwater volcanoes off Hawaii.
5/30/2018
NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life
NASA
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano—a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life.
12/11/2017
Exploring ocean worlds on Earth and beyond
Nature Geoscience
The exploration of ocean worlds in the outer Solar System offers the opportunity to search for an independent origin of life, and also to advance our capabilities for exploring and understanding life in Earth’s oceans. (Open as pdf.)
Ocean Worlds in the News
11/1/2018
NASA’s Astrobiology Program Evolving to Meet the Future
NASA
10/8/2018
How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured it Out
New York Times
11/21/2017
Life on the Rocks
bioGraphic
10/25/2017
Meet the Robots Helping in the Quest to Find Extraterrestrial Life
Wall Street Journal
9/18/2017
How to Explore Oceans on Saturn's Moons
WCAI