{"id":180083,"date":"2024-01-08T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-carbon-lite-atmosphere-could-be-a-sign-of-water-and-life-on-other-terrestrial-planets"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:24:30","slug":"a-carbon-lite-atmosphere-could-be-a-sign-of-water-and-life-on-other-terrestrial-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-carbon-lite-atmosphere-could-be-a-sign-of-water-and-life-on-other-terrestrial-planets","title":{"rendered":"A Carbon-lite Atmosphere could be a Sign of Water and Life on other Terrestrial Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-carbon-lite-atmosphere-could-be-a-sign-of-water-and-life-on-other-terrestrial-planets.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres could be a signature of habitability. Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers\u2019 best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the presence, of a chemical feature in their atmospheres.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers propose that if a terrestrial planet has substantially less CO2 in its atmosphere compared to other planets in the same system, it could be a sign of liquid water \u2014 and possibly life \u2014 on that planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, this new signature is within the sights of NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). While scientists have proposed other signs of habitability, those features are challenging if not impossible to measure with current technologies. The team says this new signature, of relatively depleted carbon dioxide, is the only sign of habitability that is detectable now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres could be a signature of habitability. Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers\u2019 best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the presence, of a chemical feature in their atmospheres. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}