Creating an exoplanet's climate in a lab might inform our search for life on the real thing. 🧐 engineering
Researchers looking for signs of life on other planets are bringing those planets down to Earth, at least their atmospheres anyway, to better understand how alien climates might give rise to life elsewhere.
"If we looked at Earth's atmosphere, we would know that life is here because we see methane, carbon dioxide, all these different markers that say something is living here," Rieker said in a."We can look at the chemical signatures of exoplanets as well. If we see the right combination of gasses, it could be an indicator that something is alive there."
As it does, different elements absorb photons differently, causing changes in the color of the light that emerges from the atmosphere.
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