The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets in the last two decades that are so different from planets in our own solar system challenges many areas of traditional planetary science. However, ideas for how to detect signs of life in this mélange of planetary possibilities have lagged, and only in the l...
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| description | The discovery of thousands of exoplanets in the last two decades that are so different from planets in our own solar system challenges many areas of traditional planetary science. However, ideas for how to detect signs of life in this mélange of planetary possibilities have lagged, and only in the last few years has modeling how signs of life might appear on genuinely alien worlds begun in earnest. Recent results have shown that the exciting frontier for biosignature gas ideas is not in the study of biology itself, which is inevitably rooted in Earth’s geochemical and evolutionary specifics, but in the interface of chemistry and planetary physics. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/964212022-10-03T10:29:39Z The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science Seager, Sara Bains, William Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Seager, Sara Bains, William The discovery of thousands of exoplanets in the last two decades that are so different from planets in our own solar system challenges many areas of traditional planetary science. However, ideas for how to detect signs of life in this mélange of planetary possibilities have lagged, and only in the last few years has modeling how signs of life might appear on genuinely alien worlds begun in earnest. Recent results have shown that the exciting frontier for biosignature gas ideas is not in the study of biology itself, which is inevitably rooted in Earth’s geochemical and evolutionary specifics, but in the interface of chemistry and planetary physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bose Fund) 2015-04-07T19:38:48Z 2015-04-07T19:38:48Z 2015-03 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2375-2548 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96421 Seager, Sara, and William Bains. “The Search for Signs of Life on Exoplanets at the Interface of Chemistry and Planetary Science.” Science Advances 1, no. 2 (March 1, 2015): e1500047–e1500047. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500047 Science Advances Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ application/pdf American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) |
| spellingShingle | Seager, Sara Bains, William The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
| title | The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
| title_full | The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
| title_short | The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
| title_sort | search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science |
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