The Signatures of Alien Life… or Not | Tiffany Jansen
March 3, 2017
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as posted by the channelAstronomers are finding habitable exoplanets everywhere! We are now starting to think about the next step, how can we use our telescopes to look for signs of life on distant worlds? Cool Worlds Lab astronomer Tiffany Jansen talks about possible atmospheric signals that could indicate the presence of a biosphere, but also the abiotic sources that could fool us all.
::More about this Video::
► Reinhard et al. (2017), "False negatives for remote life detection on oceanbearing planetsLessons from the early Earth"
► Hein et al. (2013), "Some inconvenient truths about biosignatures involving two chemical species on Earthlike exoplanets"
► Wordsworth & Pierrehumbert (2014), "Abiotic oxygendominated atmospheres on terrestrial habitable zone planets"
► Outro music by Taylor Davis
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