Are deep sea creatures aliens? I think they are. Are we looking at the deep sea to provide any clues of what could exist on other planets? Great questions. The answer is absolutely. And its something that iam am very passionate about, and have been fortunate to take part in some of that exploration in science. If someone wanted to be an astrobiologist, what would you tell them? Where did hey start? Yes, its the great question. There's biologists, chemists, geologists, geo chemists, ocean graphers. My own background, physics and an astronomy ana, geological environmental sciences. Also do o masters and robotics.
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A Smologies kid-friendly version of… ALIENS! EXTRATERRESTRIALS! MARTIANS! The phenomenal Dr. Kevin Peter Hand of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory dishes on the oceans of distant moons, methane rivers, ice crusts, the James Webb Space Telescope findings, what might be out there, aliens, what elements a planet needs to sustain life, and how finding extraterrestrial microbes would change the way we see life on this here tiny blue dot in space.
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