Author:
Angelina Hubertus
Affiliation:
Greenwich Academy, Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, U.S.A.
Keyword(s):
Planet Searching, Habitat Evaluation, Transmission Spectrum Evaluation, WASP-96b.
Abstract:
Contemporarily, evaluation for the habitability of planet remain an extreme challenging task though plenty of advanced techniques have been proposed and implemented in astrophysics observation. So far, more than 4 thousand extra-planets have been observed while only about less than 10 planets show similar habitat like earth in terms of the state-of-art measurement tools, indicating the possibility for existence of life. With this in mind, this study will systematically discuss and analyse the probing life process with the demonstration of planet searching (the five common methods) and habitat evaluation based on sampling as well as spectrum analysis. To be specific, three most investigated celestials are selected as typical examples to discuss the probing life results, i.e., Moon, Mars and WASP-96b. According to the analysis, the current collected results will be evaluated and the limitations for the current methods will be discussed. These results will offer a guideline for further
exploration regarding to life probing in universe.
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