Season 1 · Episode 21
Audio Edition: The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
How do planetary atmospheres form, and how are they lost? These two questions are carving out a new map of habitable alien realms.
August 28, 202517m 36s
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Show Notes
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.
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