{"id":5088,"date":"2021-02-16T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T04:44:19","slug":"to-find-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-pollution-could-be-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/16\/to-find-an-extraterrestrial-civilization-pollution-could-be-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"To Find an Extraterrestrial Civilization, Pollution Could Be the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Members of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/naivpl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Planetary Laboratory<\/a> team, including UWAB alumni\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/giada-arney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giada Arney<\/a> (PhD Astronomy &amp; Astrobiology, 2016) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/jacob-lustig-yaeger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Lustig-Yaeger<\/a> (PhD Astronomy &amp; Astrobiology, 2020), recently submitted a new study for publication exploring the possibilities that pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide, could serve as a technosignature if observed in the atmosphere of a habitable exoplanet. Such observations, they say, could be done with a Earth-Sun like system at 10 pc away using proposed future space telescopes such as the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/asd.gsfc.nasa.gov\/luvoir\/\" target=\"_blank\">LUVOIR\u00a0<\/a>or\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/habex\/\" target=\"_blank\">HabEx<\/a>\u00a0concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find their paper, which has been summitted to ApJ,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2102.05027.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">on arXiv here&nbsp;<\/a>and read a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/goddard\/2021\/technosignature\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Press Release on their work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory team, including UWAB alumni\u00a0Giada Arney (PhD Astronomy &amp; Astrobiology, 2016) and\u00a0Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (PhD Astronomy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42,13,32,33],"tags":[116,252,73,53,134,48,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088"}],"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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}