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Did the Galileo mission find life on Earth?

Posted by Ed on February 9, 2024

Ryder Strauss’ new paper (see Accomplishments, January 2024), is garnering some media attention.

An image of Earth taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1990. Credit: NASA/JPL


Did the Galileo mission find life on Earth?
by Brian Koberlein , Universe Today
So in a new work posted to the arXiv preprint server, the team focused on what are known as disk-integrated images. This is where light from a planet is taken… Read more

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Microbe Goo Could Help Guide the Search for Life on Mars

Posted by Ed on December 8, 2023

Natalie Jones collected water quality measurements and sediment sample data next to a supraglacial stream on the surface of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland. Credit: Alicia Rutledge

Great feature article about PhD student Natalie Jones in EOS, which is the news magazine of the American Geophysical Union.

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