Center for Life Detection

Center for Life Detection
AbbreviationCLD
FormationFebruary 11, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-02-11)
TypeAbiogenesis and astrobiology research
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersNASA's Ames Research Center
Location
Key people
Tori Hoehler, Andrew Pohorille, Richard Quinn
Parent organization
NASA
Websitewww.nasa.gov/ames/cld

The Center for Life Detection (CLD) is a collaboration among scientists and technologists from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Goddard Spaceflight Center, which formed in 2018 to support the planning and implementation of missions that will seek evidence of life beyond Earth. CLD is supported by NASA’s Planetary Science Division and is one of three core teams in the Network for Life Detection.[1][2] CLD’s perspectives on life detection science and technology development are summarized in “Groundwork for Life Detection”,[3] a white paper submitted to and cited in the 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey.[4]

  1. ^ "New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth". NASA AMES. 11 February 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Network for Life Detection (NFoLD)". Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  3. ^ Hoehler, Tori; Brinckerhoff, Will; Davila, Alfonso; Marais, David Des; Getty, Stephanie; Glavin, Danny; Pohorille, Andrew; Quinn, Richard; Bebout, Lee; Broddrick, Jared; Dateo, Christopher (2021-03-18). "Groundwork for Life Detection". Bulletin of the AAS. 53 (4): 202. Bibcode:2021BAAS...53d.202H. doi:10.3847/25c2cfeb.bd9172f9. S2CID 236682722.
  4. ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering (2022-04-19). Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032. doi:10.17226/26522. ISBN 978-0-309-47578-5. S2CID 248283239.