Podcaster: Fraser Cain
Title: Guide to Space: What’ll It Take to Find Life? Searching the Universe for Biosignatures
Organization: Universe Today
Link: www.universetoday.com
Description: The supertelescopes are coming, enormous ground and space-based observatories that’ll let us directly observe the atmospheres of distant worlds. We know there’s life on Earth, and our atmosphere tells the tale, so can we do the same thing with extrasolar planets? It turns out, coming up with a single biosignature, a chemical in the atmosphere that tells you that yes, absolutely, there’s life on that world, is really tough.
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
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