The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science
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Seager, Sara; Bains, William
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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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2015-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Science Advances
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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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.
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2375-2548