How Special Is The Earth? | with Dr Elizabeth Tasker | PODCAST #21 Earth Ideas

Dr Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist who studies exoplanets: extra-solar planets - those worlds that exist, function and potentially support life outside of our own solar system.    



We talked about methods & theories in discovering and learning about exoplanets, the search for a planet similar to Earth, and the very exciting near future of space technologies & discoveries.   



0:00 Elizabeth's career journey 

9:51 First exoplanet discovery 

17:00 Detecting their compositions 

29:24 How to we detect & guess? 

34:52 Searching for water 

36:53 Searching for life 

44:29 The $.5bn Question 

52:07 JAXA's next missions  



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Refs & Links:  

Hayabusa 2 Asteroid samples landing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55201662

The Planet Factory: https://www.elizabethtasker.com/planetfactory

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https://twitter.com/nexssmanyworlds 

https://www.elizabethtasker.com/ 



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