{"id":8135,"date":"2014-06-19T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:19:52","slug":"national-geographic-looks-at-the-hunt-for-life-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8135","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic looks at &#8220;The hunt for life beyond Earth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cover article of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/07\/table-of-contents\" target=\"_blank\">July 2014<\/a> issue of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic magazine<\/a> is about looking for signs of extraterrestrial life : \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/astrobiology\/\" target=\"_d\">Astrobiology &#8211; The hunt for life beyond Earth: <em>One of the oldest questions may be answered in our lifetimes. Are we alone?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This includes\u00a0searches both of sites within our solar system and of exoplanets. \u00a0Of course, there are great images and infographics like all Nat Geo articles.<\/p>\n<p>Supplements include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/astrobiology\/distant-oasis\/\" target=\"_d\">Distant Oasis<\/a>\u00a0about the possibility of life on Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/astrobiology\/goldilocks-worlds\/\" target=\"_d\">Goldilocks Worlds<\/a>\u00a0is about finding exoplanets of sizes similar to earth and in orbits within the\u00a0\u00a0habitable zones of their stars.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Nye of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a>\u00a0discusses the issue of finding the resources to answer this old question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/06\/140618-europa-bill-nye-jupiter-extraterrestrial-life-nasa\/\" target=\"_d\">Opinion: We Could Find Life on Another Planet. Do We Have the Will? &#8211;\u00a0Nat Geo Space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/bill-nye\/20140618-europa-clipper.html\" target=\"_d\">We could find life on another planet, but do we have the will? &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover article of the July 2014 issue of\u00a0National Geographic magazine is about looking for signs of extraterrestrial life : \u00a0Astrobiology &#8211; The hunt for life beyond Earth: One of the oldest questions may be answered in our lifetimes. Are we alone? This includes\u00a0searches both of sites within our solar system and of exoplanets. \u00a0Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Geographic looks at &#8220;The hunt for life beyond Earth&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-seti","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-27d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10209,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10209","url_meta":{"origin":8135,"position":0},"title":"TESS will hunt for exoplanets starting in 2017","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Kepler space observatory proved the effectiveness of the transit technique in\u00a0finding exoplanets. 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