MultimediaIs Anybody Home? Assessing A Planet's Habitability
Air Date: 01/09/2012
Run Time: 0:28:50
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Guests:
- Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Astrobiologist,
- Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer,
Topics:
Planets everywhere, and soon we'll have discovered thousands. Now there's a way to score their suitability for life, says astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch and his colleagues. Emily Lakdawalla previews 2012's solar system missions of exploration. Bill Nye is thrilled by new discoveries about our moon. What graffiti would you leave on the sands of Mars? That's the new contest from Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan in What's Up!
Related Links:
- Abstract for "A two-Tiered Approach to Assessing the Habitability of Exoplanets"
- "Cosmic Biology" by Louis Neal Irwin and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
- What is Space Exploration Worth?
- What's Up in the Solar System
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