#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

5991.663 - 6013.282 Adam Frank

But be able to find and characterize atmospheres around terrestrial exoplanets is the critical next step. That's where we are right now. In order to look for life, we're going to be, we need to find planets with atmospheres, right? And then we need to be able to do this thing called characterization, where we look at the spectral fingerprints for what's in the atmosphere. Is there carbon?