Joining the Microscope and the Telescope in the Search for Life Beyond Earth 

NASA Ames Research Scientist Niki Parenteau and NASA Goddard Civil Servant Giada Arney were recently featured in a Many Worlds article. Parenteau and Arney explain the synergy between their fields of expertise. Specifically, they discuss how Arney’s simulations of a hazy early Earth are being brought to life in Parenteau’s lab at NASA Ames. This experiment is primarily testing if microbes on another world [exoplanet] could survive a UV bombardment in the presence of haze. “The Parenteau – Arney collaboration is being funded through a NAI grant to the University of Washington’s famously-interdisciplinary Virtual Planetary Laboratory.”

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