Lenardic on CLEVER Planets on Texas radio
This summer, Rice University Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science professor and geodynamicist on the project, Adrian Lenardic, spoke to the Texas Standard’s radio show about the research that CLEVER Planets is exploring regarding the origins of “extraterrestrial life”. When asked about the necessities to support life in space, Lenardic said, “We know that life requires energy, and for a long time we’ve thought that energy from the star is critical, but there’s also energy from the interior of the planet,” such that volcanoes and mountains, for example, that are similar but not necessarily geologically identical to Earth, may contribute...
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CLEVER Planets is live
We are pleased to announce CLEVER Planets (the Cycling of Life-Essential Volatile Elements on Rocky Planets), a research project investigating the necessary chemistry for a rocky planet to host life. The project is funded by an almost $8-million grant from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to be a part of the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS). Research for the team project will be accomplished by Principle Investigator Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University) and eleven other co-investigators from around the world (Rice, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, UCLA, UC-Davis, UC-Boulder), and many more collaborators at a myriad of institutions around the world, all representing...
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Distant planets and life: Podcast features CLEVER Planets investigator Lenardic
Adrian Lenardic was featured on a podcast of the Texas Standard, talking about the possibilities of life existing on some of the “3700 planets orbiting distant stars.” Lenardic is one of the CLEVER Planets co-investigators based at Rice University. Check it out here....