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Center for Life Detection

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The Center for Life Detection (CLD) is a collaboration among scientists and technologists from NASA Ames Research Center and Goddard Space Flight Center, established in 2018 and formally founded on February 11, 2019, dedicated to research on detecting life beyond Earth. It supports mission planning and implementation aimed at finding evidence of life elsewhere, researching how biosignatures might be detected on other worlds, developing tools for the astrobiology community, and mapping measurement technologies to life-detection objectives, with particular focus on Mars, ocean worlds and exoplanets as potential targets. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Agency Type
Collaboration of NASA scientists and technologists for life detection research 1
Founded Year
2019 1
Headquarters
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Federal Airfield, California, United States 1
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1. Wikipedia: Center for Life Detection
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    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.
  • Infobox, Formation row
    February 11, 2019
  • Infobox, Headquarters row
    NASA's Ames Research Center
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