NASA Astrobiology Institute

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The NASA Astrobiology Institute ( NAI ) is a research facility founded in 1998 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the aim of advancing astrobiology and its related space flight missions.

The NAI is a virtual organization; its 700 members are members of around 150 different institutions (as of January 2009) and are organized in 14 research groups. The director and a small core team are based at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View , California. The institute has a budget of $ 16 million (2008).

On December 2, 2010, the institute announced that it had discovered the first organisms that can metabolize arsenic. The microorganisms GFAJ-1 were found by the researchers in Mono Lake in the US state of California .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brown, Dwayme and Cathy Weselby: NASA Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical. NASA, December 2, 2010, accessed December 3, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Martin Vieweg: Revolutionary Discovery. Image of Science, December 3, 2010, accessed September 9, 2019 .

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