Sentences with phrase «signatures of other planets»

«But it also gives us a clue about what signatures of other planets might look like, especially if they are capable of supporting life as we know it.»

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On Earth, green is a symbol of life and growth, but a recent study found that photosynthesizing organisms on other planets could have color signatures like red, orange, yellow, or black — but probably not blue.

However, some scenarios can mimic the signature of a transiting planet, such as two stars that orbit each other, and provide a false positive signal.

One path to finding life on other planets — or moons — involves looking for signature patterns of amino acids, which are organic molecules that are critical to life on Earth.

I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and other chemical signatures there.

AS ASTRONOMERS dream up elaborate schemes to detect planets orbiting other stars, the signature of one such planet may have been sitting under their noses.

The signature of livable planets, Carl Sagan and others have shown, is likely to be most prominent in the infrared part of the spectrum.

Teasing out the subtle signature of small planets in radial - velocity data takes a wealth of observations, especially when the signal is dominated by larger planets in the system, and others are sure to investigate whether the signature of Gliese 581g is real.

The telescope will provide astronomers with the capability to examine the atmospheres of other planets and look for atmospheric signatures that could hint the presence of life.

So, starting from the only example we have, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program is aiming to build a telescope that will look for oxygen or other similarly odd gases in other earth - like planets atmospheres as possible signatures of life.

Gaia's founding scientist James Lovelock formulated Gaia theory while working for NASA seeking chemical signatures of life on other planets.

Simulations aim to understand how different irradiance spectra affect a planet's habitability and climate dynamics and its radiance signature, due to the spectral absorbance properties of different atmospheres and different surface spectral albedos resulting from the gradual spread of life over land and adaptations of photosynthetic pigments to other light regimes.