MarcoPolo-R is a sample return mission to a primitive Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) proposed in collaboration with NASA. It will rendezvous with a primitive NEA...
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PublicationMarcoPolo-R near earth asteroid sample return mission
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PublicationMid- and far-infrared spectroscopy of nucleobases: molar extinction coefficients, integrated molar absorptivity, and temperature dependence of the main bands
The nucleobases, namely the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil, are the key monomers of the information polymers DNA...
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PublicationObservations and modelling of earth's transmission spectrum through lunar eclipses: A window to transiting exoplanet characterization
Recently we were able to retrieve the Earth's transmission spectrum through lunar eclipse observations. This spectrum showed that the depth of most molecular...
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PublicationOn the Effects of the Evolution of Microbial Mats and Land Plants on the Earth as a Planet. Photometric and Spectroscopic Light Curves of Paleo-Earths
Understanding the spectral and photometric variability of the Earth and the rest of the solar system planets has become of utmost importance for the future...
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TalkOrganic grains in cometary comae
Comets may have played an important role in depositing the organic matter that, between 4,6 and 3,6 billion of years ago, allowed the formation of life on the...
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PublicationPhotosynthetic Fluorescence from Earthlike Planets around Sunlike and Cool Stars
Remote sensing of the Earth has demonstrated that photosynthesis is traceable as the vegetation red edge (VRE), which is a steep rise in the reflection spectrum...
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PublicationReconstructing the Photometric Light Curves of Earth as a Planet along Its History
By utilizing satellite-based estimations of the distribution of clouds, we have studied Earth's large-scale cloudiness behavior according to latitude and...
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PublicationSearching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for...
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PublicationShort-duration high-amplitude flares detected on the M dwarf star KIC 5474065
Using data obtained during the RATS-Kepler project, we identified one short-duration flare in a 1 h sequence of ground-based photometry of the dwarf star KIC...