Ryder Strauss’ new paper (see Accomplishments, January 2024), is garnering some media attention.
Did the Galileo mission find life on Earth?
by Brian Koberlein , Universe Today
So in a new work posted to the arXiv preprint server, the team focused on what are known as disk-integrated images. This is where light from a planet is taken as a whole. Instead of a detailed image of Earth such as the one above, the team looked at integrated images from the Limited Solid State Imager (SSI). The disk-integrated images it gathers are similar to the images we can capture of exoplanets. They then looked at the overall brightness and spectra of these images to see what they could tell us about Earth.