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| Paper: |
The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets |
| Monograph: |
10, HWO25 Proceedings Part I: Community Science Case Development Documents |
| Page: |
279 |
| Authors: |
Giada Arney; Niki Parenteau; Natalie Hinkel; Eric Mamajek; Joshua Krissansen-Totton; Stephanie Olson; Edward Schwieterman; Sara Walker; Kevin Fogarty; Ravi Kopparapu; Jacob Lustig-Yaeger; Mark Moussa; Sukrit Ranjan; Garima Singh; Clara Sousa-Silva; Maxwell Frissell; Samantha Gilbert-Janziek; Vincent Kofman; Natasha Latouf; Mary Anne Limbach; Rhonda Morgan; Christopher Stark; Armen Tokadjian; Anna Grace Ulses; Nicholas Wogan; Mike Wong; Amber Young |
| DOI: |
10.26624/EUSM7899 |
| Abstract: |
The discovery of a biosphere on another planet would transform how we view ourselves, and our planet
Earth, in relation to the rest of the cosmos. We now know Earth is one planet among eight circling our sun; our
sun is part of a swirling galaxy of over one hundred billion other suns; and our galaxy is one of untold billions
in the universe. While we do not yet know how many—if any—other biospheres exist on the countless worlds
orbiting countless other suns, we stand at the precipice of a new era of discovery, enabled by powerful new
facilities able to peer across the light years into the atmospheres of planets similar to our own.
This article is
an adaptation of a science case document developed for HWO’s Living Worlds Working Group. |
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