Habitable Zone
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Raman Spectroscopy Of Salt Deposits From The Simulated Subsurface Ocean Of Enceladus

by Keith Cowing

Saturn’s ice-covered moon Enceladus may host a subsurface ocean with biologically relevant chemistry.

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Probing Thermal Gradients Of Habitable-zone Rocky Planets Using Direct Imaging As An Anti-indicator Of A Global Surface Ocean

by Keith Cowing

Future direct-imaging missions, such as the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE), aim to observe thermal emission from potentially habitable planets to characterize their surface environments and search for signs of […]

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Life On Lava: How Microbes Colonize New Habitats

by Keith Cowing

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature’s resilience to natural disasters has long been recognized, not much is […]

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Caves On Earth As Proxies For Martian Subsurface Environments

by Keith Cowing

On planet Earth, the inner part of cave systems represents an extreme and isolated environment, characterized by relatively stable microclimatic conditions, nutrient limitation and protection from external stressors such as […]

Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report

Multi-bandpass Photometry for Exoplanet Atmosphere Reconnaissance (MPEAR) with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) — I. Differentiating Earth from Neptunes During Discovery

by Keith Cowing

As the architecture for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is being developed, it is crucial to optimize the observing strategies for a survey to detect and characterize Earth-like planets around […]

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