A Framework for Detecting Life Beyond Earth: Biosignatures Structured as Substances, Objects, and Patterns
To the point
Detecting life beyond Earth relies on a framework that groups biosignatures into substances, objects, and patterns, acknowledges that abiotic processes can mimic them and create ambiguity, and relies on multi-scale context, big data, and standardized, open, interdisciplinary methods to distinguish biogenic signals from abiotic ones across planetary environments.
