Garden of unearthly delights

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3034, 2015, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Sokol talks about the future of the search for alien life. On the 17th floor of MIT's tallest building, Sara Seager and six other researchers are showing him the foundation stones of a vast library of molecules--a few of which maybe the first to alert people to the presence of life on another world. Seager and her colleagues are building a cache of biosignatures--chemicals that would suggest an alien planet is playing host to life. Two upcoming NASA missions--the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, slated for launch in 2017, and the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for 2018--will work together to catch starlight filtering through a handful of exoplanet atmospheres.