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A pretty smart reality check!We have some truly epic news.A team of American and European scientists have confirmed this not-so-surprising observation after they simulated the workings of a proposed space telescope, and then focused the telescope on Earth, treating it like a distant exoplanet to see if the instrument could pick up evidence of life.
In this kind-of-round-about way, the scientists can estimate the future performance of the space telescope, calledThe scientists detailed the findings inCurrently, there is no exact date when the LIFE telescope — being overseen by the Swiss university ETH Zürich — would start getting built, but this paper at least shows that its ambitions are viable.
"hese biogenic gases is most consistent with a productive global photosynthetic biosphere," the scientists write. The LIFE telescope, which would actually be made up of five satellites working in tandem, would operate by picking up infrared radiation in exoplanets' atmosphere. From this raw data, scientists hope they'd be able to calculate the chemical composition of the exoplanets' atmosphere.is to study in further detail 30 to 50 exoplanets that are of similar size to Earth and see if there's is any glimmer of life in their atmospheres.
If LIFE is indeed deployed, it may go a long way towards answering one of the universe's biggest mysteries: are we alone?
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