NASA has created a new research team to explore space and extraterrestrial life

10. 04. 2019
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Nasa seems to be very interested in seeing if we are alone in the universe or not. Their next step in pursuit of extraterrestrial life is to create a center for the detection of extraterrestrial life (CLDS), where scientists will address one of humanity's oldest questions "are we alone here?"

What is CLDS and how are they looking for extraterrestrial life?

The Life Detection Center will be part of the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. It will combine a "new consortium of researchers" from NASA, as well as those with expertise in physics, biology, astrophysics and more. The search for life in space cannot be monotonous. If we want to succeed, we must develop tools and strategies that are precisely tailored to detect life in the unique conditions of alien worlds. These are not only very different from the conditions on Earth, but also between different planets. Explained Tori Hoehler, CLDS lead investigator and Ames researcher.

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Tori Hoehler says:

"We now have the scientific and engineering expertise to reveal this deep question (are we here alone?) Confirming the scientific evidence and our great scientific community."

Members are expected to CLDS will bewith the University of Georgetown and the Institute of Technology in Georgia.

The plan is to have scientists from the agnostic biosignature lab who will try to identify life "as we don't know it" from distant places where the definition of life can be very different from how we know it here on Earth. Experts will study the possibility of past or future life in the ice of our solar system, the outer moons and Mars. And that could be one of the best things NASA has done to study after extraterrestrial life in decades.

It was stupid to expect life in the universe to be the same or similar to what we have here on Earth. Since we have explored very little of the universe, and the only places where man is to be Moon, Mars and Venus, it is hard to argue over how life would look elsewhere. Maybe life on distant extraterrestrial planets or exoplanets doesn't need oxygen and water to survive. Perhaps life on distant planets needs the exact opposite of survival. Maybe distant extraterrestrial planets have an atmosphere completely toxic to human life, but they are
appropriate to the "other forms" of life that resemble nothing here on Earth.

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