IMAGES FOR CHAPTER 1

• Astrobiology web site
• Find a picture of the Crab Nebula.
• Mars page from NASA, continually updated.
• Exploring Mars, from JPL: Pathfinder and so on, continually updated.
• Mars Global Surveyor site from NASA/JPL.
• SOME MSSS IMAGES.
• Halobacteria, and where you can see them in California

IMAGES SEARCHED AND CHECKED:

• Supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• Cassiopeia A supernova
• The Solar System. From NASA.
• Earth from space. From NASA.
• Distant view of Mars. From NASA.
• Mars surface from Viking. From NASA.
• Mars: heavily cratered highlands. From NASA.
• Olympus Mons: as big as Arizona. From NASA.
• Rampart Crater on Mars, with mudflows. From NASA
• Beautiful crater, muted mudflows. From NASA.
• Mars surface with scars of water action. From NASA.
• Region on Mars with many dry stream beds. From NASA.
• Dry stream beds in Yemen, for comparison. From NASA.
• Gullies on crater wall
• Sand dunes. From NASA.
• Photos used in 1996 to argue for life in a Martian meteorite
• Antarctica, showing site for collecting meteorites from Mars. From NASA.
• Allan Hills 48001, the notorious "bacteria"=bearing martian meteorite. From NASA.
• ALH48001 is basalt. From NASA.
• Alleged bacteria from Martian meteorite. From NASA.
• Ancient bacteria fossils from Earth, for comparison. From NASA.
• E. coli from someone's gut, for comparison. From NASA.
• Object claimed to be a Martian bacterium. From NASA.
• Alleged "nanobacteria" from deep in Earth's crust. From NASA.
• Earth from space. NASA image.
• The Miller experiment. Color version of Figure 1.5.
• Stanley Miller and his experiment
• Photo of the original apparatus
• Amino acid structure Cartoon by RC.
• Chains of amino acids. Cartoon by RC.
• Structure of adenine. Cartoon by RC.
• Primordial soup
• Color version of Figure 1.6. RC cartoon.
• Lipid bilayers. Color version of Figure 1.7. RC cartoon.
• Natural lipid foam . Tidepool at Bodega Head, California: RC photo.
• Black smoker, deep ocean floor. From NASA.
• A universal minimal cell, according to Lynn Margulis. Cartoon by RC.

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