James Webb Space Telescope Might Be Able to Detect Alien Agriculture

how the new observatory might be able to spot “exofarms” when it begins scanning the heavens later this year. is available on the preprint arXiv server. It comes courtesy of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of California. The analysis assumes a few things about agriculture on exoplanets, including that the biosphere would take advantage of the free energy raining down from their suns. If there’s something like photosynthesis, then the large-scale farming of plants would produce recognizable signatures as it does on Earth.Now Read:

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