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NASA has an ambitious plan to search for extraterrestrial life

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NASA has an ambitious plan to search for extraterrestrial life

NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts is known for supporting unusual ideas about astronomy and space exploration. Since its creation in 2011, the institute has supported many projects within its three-stage program. However, to date, only three projects have received funding within the third phase from NASA. One of them has just published a white paper describing a mission to build a telescope that can effectively observe biosignatures on nearby exoplanets using the gravitational lensing of our own Sun. A distinctive feature of Phase III is the funding of $2 million, which in this case went to JPL. The company teamed up with The Aerospace Corporation to prepare this latest white paper, which details the mission concept and identifies which technologies already exist and which require further development.
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