Full Citation: Walker, S. I., Cronin, L., Drew, A., Domagal-Goldman, S., Fisher, T., Line, M., and Millsaps, C. (2020). Probabilistic Frameworks for Life Detection. In Planetary Astrobiology (V. S. Meadows et al., eds.), pp. 477-504. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, DOI: 10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816540068-ch018.
Abstract: Our capacity to search for life on other worlds is rapidly advancing, both within our solar system and beyond. In the last few decades robotic missions have explored every major target of astrobiological interest in our solar system, collecting data relevant to assessing habitability across diverse environments, from rocky planets to icy satellites. Outside our solar system, we have now identified thousands of worlds orbiting other stars, many of which may be habitable, suggesting there are many places beyond our solar system where life could, at least in principle, emerge and persist. The next challenge in advancing the search for…
URL: https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816540068