But modern technological innovations have «blown things open for us,» she said, meaning astrobiology is seeing huge amounts
of relevant information come from every
direction, from medicine to
planetary science.
«There is general brightening upward trend in the highlands and then dark spots at the highest locations,» explained Elise Harrington, an Earth
sciences undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, who revisited the Venus data during her internship at the Lunar and
Planetary Institute, under the
direction of Allan Treiman.