HONG KONG: The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: Unitred States National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA) climatologists.
After more than 30 years of studying Earth, a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York will adapt its global climate model to simulate conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets.
According to the report published in Nature, the effort is part of a broader push to identify Earth-like worlds that NASA launched on April 20 at a meeting in Washington DC.
Meanwhile, Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and members of diplomatic corps on Tuesday called for effective climate change control for continuous survival of human beings on planet earth.
The dignitaries, at the opening of the seventh Lagos State Climate Change Summit, said the control must be complemented with the development of adaptation strategies that will preserve nature and its gifts.
Already, the agency’s space-based Kepler telescope has pinpointed more than 1,000 alien planets by observing the brief interruption of starlight that signals a planet passing in front of its parent star.
At least five of these planets are similar in size to Earth and located in the ‘habitable zone’, where liquid water could persist. The next step would be to detect light passing through exoplanet atmospheres, which could hold clues to conditions on these distant worlds.
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