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Franck Marchis notes that credible discovery of life or intelligence beyond Earth depends on trusted, independently verifiable data, which the SETI Institute pursues through SkyMapper’s distributed, all-sky network that creates an auditable chain of custody across multiple stations to enable independent verification before any announcement, in alignment with updated post-detection protocols, while complementing its own programs—such as the SkyMapper citizen-science network, the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, and the Discovery and Futures Lab—with the data revolution driven by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and supported by public engagement and partnerships (including the SkyMapper network and SETI Stars) to advance a collaborative, cross-institutional understanding of life and intelligence in the universe.
