{"id":4993,"date":"2020-12-28T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2021-01-19T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:16:36","slug":"if-a-planet-has-a-lot-of-methane-in-its-atmosphere-life-is-the-most-likely-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/28\/if-a-planet-has-a-lot-of-methane-in-its-atmosphere-life-is-the-most-likely-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"If a Rocky Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB student\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/wordpress\/team-showcase\/wogan-nick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/nick-wogan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wogan\u00a0<\/a>(ESS), along with Alumni <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/joshua-krissansen-totton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Krissansen-Totton<\/a>\u00a0(PhD ESS and Astrobiology, 2019) and their faculty advisor, Prof. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/wordpress\/team-showcase\/catling-david\/\" target=\"_blank\">David <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/david-catling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catling\u00a0<\/a>(ESS), recently published their paper \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/wordpress\/publication\/abundant-atmospheric-methane-from-volcanism-on-terrestrial-planets-is-unlikely-and-strengthens-the-case-for-methane-as-a-biosignature-the-planetary-science-journal-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abundant atmospheric methane from volcanism on terrestrial planets is unlikely and strengthens the case for methane as a biosignature<\/a>\u201d in the Planetary Science Journal, and it was also recently highlighted in an article on Universe Today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/149351\/if-a-planet-has-a-lot-of-methane-in-its-atmosphere-life-is-the-most-likely-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universe\u00a0Today article here<\/a>, or read their\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/PSJ\/abb99e\" target=\"_blank\">Open Access publication here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB student\u00a0Nick Wogan\u00a0(ESS), along with Alumni Josh Krissansen-Totton\u00a0(PhD ESS and Astrobiology, 2019) and their faculty advisor, Prof. David Catling\u00a0(ESS), recently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42,47,13,21,32,33],"tags":[247,44,84,245,231,48,248,246],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993"}],"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=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}