...natural environments of these extraterrestrial bodies. Most importantly, the guidelines also help to preserve the terrestrial biosphere from possible contamination by alien material brought back by sample-return missions. Artist impression of the MMX...
...to repression: bringing every human being up to a living standard now enjoyed only by the most fortunate; protecting the biosphere from damage caused by transportation and industrial pollution; finding high quality living space for a world population...
...for a millionfold increase in the energy available to organisms, and consequently increased the overall size of the Earth’s biosphere by this amount. Artist’s illustration of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), part of a new class of extremely...
... can generate their own fixed carbon, they also don't need sunlight to do it like the rest of the biosphere that we're familiar with." This bodes well for scientists looking for life on other worlds, such as on the...
... the best prospects for finding and analysing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere-the tentative signals of life." With a leap in precision measurement, Tuthill and colleagues are hoping that TOLIMAN...