{"id":1414,"date":"2018-06-25T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2020-10-22T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:13:16","slug":"will-we-know-life-when-we-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/25\/will-we-know-life-when-we-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Will We Know Life When We See It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UW researchers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/content\/welcome-virtual-planetary-laboratory\">Virtual Planetary Laboratory<\/a>&nbsp;led and were co-authors on a series of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/toc\/ast\/18\/6\">papers<\/a> published in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history\u2014and suggesting the future\u2014of the search for life on exoplanets. In this set of papers, researchers investigated the most promising signs of life (biosignatures), and considered how to interpret these signs if we were to detect them on an exoplanet. \u201cFor life to be detectable on a distant  world it needs to strongly modify its planet in a way that we can  detect,\u201d said UW astronomy professor <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/bio-page\/19\">Victoria Meadows<\/a>. The UW news highlight can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/25\/uw-part-of-nasa-network-coordinating-search-for-life-on-exoplanets\/?utm_source=UW+News+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=62a6fd93aa-UW_Today_Tuesday_June_26_2018&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0707cbc3f9-62a6fd93aa-308799397\">here<\/a> and the NASA press release can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/will-we-know-life-when-we-see-it-nasa-led-group-takes-stock-of-the-science\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW researchers in the Virtual Planetary Laboratory&nbsp;led and were co-authors on a series of&nbsp;papers published in the journal Astrobiology outlining&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[54,125],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4562,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}