Key Topics
- Astronomical observations of water
- water in the early solar system (disks, observations & models)
- water in comets and asteroids
- water on the moon, Mercury and Mars
- water in exoplanetary systems
- water in interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, and external galaxies
- laboratory studies of interstellar water ice analogues
- synthesis of organic matter in stars and in the interstellar medium
- organic chemistry in the solar nebula
- external delivery of water and organics to Earth and implications on the origin of life on Earth