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Exoplanets: Possible Biosignatures [PDF]
Proceedings of Frontier Research in Astrophysics – II — PoS(FRAPWS2016), 2017 The ancestor philosophers' dream of thousands of new worlds is finally realised: about 3500 extrasolar planets have been discovered in the neighborhood of our Sun. Most of them are very different from those we used to know in our Solar System.
Claudi, R.
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Lethaia, EarlyView., 2021 Biomineralization is a generic term used to indicate biological‐mediated mineral formation. In carbonate mineralization, nucleation of crystals can be: (1) controlled directly by the organisms, like in the skeletal formation of most metazoans; (2) induced by microbial communities, by indirect precipitation mediated by their metabolic activities; or (3)
Adriano Guido +4 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 In the search for life on other planets, the presence of photosynthetic surface vegetation may be detectable from the colors of light it reflects. On the modern Earth, this spectral reflectance is characterized by a steep increase in reflectance between ...
Owen R. Lehmer +5 more
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Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars
AGU Advances, 2021 Oxygen is a promising exoplanet biosignature due to the evolutionary advantage conferred by harnessing starlight for photosynthesis, and the apparent low likelihood of maintaining oxygen‐rich atmospheres without life.
Joshua Krissansen‐Totton +3 more
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Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions [PDF]
Astrobiology, 2018 125 pages (double spaced), 12 figures; The paper is the fourth in a series of 5 review manuscripts of the NExSS Exoplanet Biosignatures Workshop.
Walker, Sara I. +13 more
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The Hypothesis of a “Living Pulse” in Cells
Life, 2023 Motility is a great biosignature and its pattern is characteristic for specific microbes. However, motion does also occur within the cell by the myriads of ongoing processes within the cell and the exchange of gases and nutrients with the outside ...
Marina Walther-Antonio +1 more
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ATLAST detector needs for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization in the visible and near-IR [PDF]
, 2015 Are we alone? Answering this ageless question will be a major focus for astrophysics in coming decades. Our tools will include unprecedentedly large UV-Optical-IR space telescopes working with advanced coronagraphs and starshades.
Bolcar, Matthew R. +8 more
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Challenges, 2014 The past decade has seen an explosion of new technologies for assessment of biogenicity and syngeneity of carbonaceous material within sedimentary rocks.
Dorothy Z. Oehler, Sherry L. Cady
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The Ground-Based BIOMEX Experiment Verification Tests for Life Detection on Mars
Life, 2021 The success of an astrobiological search for life campaign on Mars, or other planetary bodies in the Solar System, relies on the detectability of past or present microbial life traces, namely, biosignatures.
Claudia Pacelli +8 more
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Robust monomer-distribution biosignatures in evolving digital biota [PDF]
, 2011 Because organisms synthesize component molecules at rates that reflect those molecules' adaptive utility, we expect a population of biota to leave a distinctive chemical signature on their environment that is anomalous given the local (abiotic) chemistry.
Abelson P.H. +3 more
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