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| − | Dr Allwood suggested in 2006 the patterns of life in the Pilbara could also have happened on Mars.鈥淚f life flourished so quickly on Earth, there鈥檚 a good chance life could also have gained a toehold on Mars, even if it were habitable only briefly,鈥?she wrote in 2006.
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| − | New technology designed by Dr Allwood allows Mars rock to be investigated down to microscopic, grain-size portions of rock.That will give the new Mars Rover a better chance to prove life existed on Mars.Dr Allwood began her geology studies at Queensland University of Technology, where she completed her Geosciences degree (with honours) in 2001.
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| − | Abigail Allwood. Photo: NASA
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| − | She completed her honours year in 2002, before shifting to Sydney鈥檚 Macquarie University for her 2006 doctorate, which attracted the science world鈥檚 attention with ground-breaking research in the PIlbara.Before this she went to primary school in Brisbane, then Brisbane鈥檚 Sommerville House private girls鈥?school.Her 2006 research proved the geology of rocky reef that formed within the Pilbara 3.5 billion years ago held records of the Earth's oldest forms of life.It was this research that led her to be named minds by Cosmos magazine in 2006.In a media statement issued by the Australian Centre for Astrobiology in 2006, Abigail Allwood again made the link between her Pilbara research results and possible life on Mars.鈥淥ne of the broader implications of this work is in helping us search for traces of life on Mars and other planets,鈥?she said.That research was front page feature research in Nature, the acclaimed international science journal.Her sister, Belinda Allwood from Cairns, confirmed these details about her sister, whom she described as 鈥渆xtraordinarily brilliant鈥? but 鈥渦nassuming and very modest鈥?鈥淪he is now the first female principal investigator on a Mars Mission,鈥?Belinda said.鈥淎nd I think the first Australian citizen. Belinda Allwood said her sister 鈥?now a mother of one - was very proud of PIXL - her latest research work, because it will allow the Mars Rover to analyse very small 鈥?鈥榞rain-sized鈥?portions of rock.Dr Allwood鈥檚 new technology is part of the mission will take to Mars.鈥淪he has been working on it for four to five years now. I remember being over there visiting her in 2011 or 2012 and visiting her at JPL,鈥?sister Belinda Allwood said.Belinda Allwood said she went to the Pilbara with her sister while she was researching rock samples before travelling to the States to work for NASA, seven years ago.鈥淚t was absolutely fascinating. She was looking at rock on the level of a 鈥榞rain鈥?鈥?<a href=http://www. saclouisvuittonhomme.com> Sac Louis Vuitton Chain Louise</a> 鈥榓 grain of rock鈥?to look for traces of organic material,鈥?she said.鈥淪o for her, the instruments that have been going up to Mars, they blast quite a large piece of rock to smithereens.鈥淎nd just give a chemical analysis of that sample- which may be a centimetre across. 鈥淲hat the machine that she has developed will now do is analyse rock on a really fine scale 鈥?the level of a grain, just a few microns.鈥濃€淭hat is what PIXL will do. It can be aimed at 鈥榞rains鈥?in rock, to see what the composition is like.鈥漇even years ago Dr Allwood's Pilbara research was groundbreaking, Belinda Allwood said.鈥淲hen I was out there in the Pilbara visiting her, the rock was layered, but you could actually see the grains.鈥淎nd she would point out to me, a black grain next to grey one.鈥淎nd she would say: 鈥楾he black one might be organic in origin. It might be carbon-based鈥?鈥滺er research ultimately suggested this was the case.鈥淗er research put an end to decades of debate whether the Pilbara fossils were of organic origin, Belinda Allwood said.鈥淭hey became accepted as the oldest fossilised evidence for life on earth, 3. 43 billion years old.鈥滿ost recently - in 2013 Abigail Allwood received NASA鈥檚 Lew Allen Award for Excellence 鈥?awarded to recognise 鈥渟ignificant individual accomplishments鈥?in scientific research by NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Now, NASA鈥檚 current rover, the Curiosity Rover 鈥?which has been on Mars for more almost two years - is beginning to look at bedrock of called Mount Sharp, located in Gale Crater. The Rover team is calling the outcrop Pahrump Hills. NASA launched its first two Mars Rovers in 2004.It then launched the Mars Laboratory Curiosity Rover in 2011.Since August 6, 2012 鈥?after it landed on Mars 鈥?the Curiosity Rover has been used effectively as a from Mars.NASA has already found that parts of Mars were and could have supported life.鈥淪ince landing on Mars in 2004, Opportunity has made a number <a href=http://www. saclouisvuittonhomme.com> Sac Louis Vuitton Citadine</a> of discoveries about the Red Planet including dramatic evidence that long ago at least one area of Mars stayed wet for an extended period and that conditions could have been suitable for sustaining microbial life, 鈥?NASA鈥檚 Mars Rover website says. | + | |
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