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Lecture 19: How to Find Life on Exoplanets

Lecture 19: How to Find Life on Exoplanets. Life as we know it Spectroscopy of Earth as a “pale Blue Dot” Future space missions. April 14 news story (Natl.Geo). Finding „Pale Blue Dots“. 1) Our place in the universe Telescopes & finding planets 2) Search for Life No place like home... ?.

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Lecture 19: How to Find Life on Exoplanets

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  1. Lecture 19: How to Find Life on Exoplanets Life as we know it Spectroscopy of Earth as a “pale Blue Dot” Future space missions

  2. April 14 news story (Natl.Geo)

  3. Finding „Pale Blue Dots“ 1) Our place in the universeTelescopes & finding planets2) Search for LifeNo place like home... ?

  4. Search for life...- as we know it

  5. Signs Of Life On An Earth-like Planet Needed for life Primordial; & bacteria product Plant product Bacteria Plant life observed Carbon dioxide Nitrous oxide Vegetation Ozone Water Methane Oxygen

  6. Features: 1) observables & 2) unique

  7. Spectral features (example IR)

  8. Take-out on another planet?

  9. Planets NOW &EARTH... Part of the Puzzle

  10. HUGE HOT GAS BALL Atmosphere by transits... Sept 2008

  11. EARTH – the next step Earth ?

  12. CoRoT, KEPLER, JWST, TPF...

  13. OurGeneration Explorers… find our path in unscarred territoriesSpitzer, Kepler, Darwin (ESA), Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA)… Will answer a 1000s year old question… are there other pale blue dots out there? Alone ? Bacterial worlds ? Humans never evolve ? Exciting times ahead

  14. Main points to take home: • Search for life on other planets: rely on Earth life biosignatures. • Biosignatures: find observable and unique features. • Technical difficulties and space missions in the near future.

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