{"id":3624,"date":"2009-06-20T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:04:24","slug":"interview-with-an-astrobiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/06\/20\/interview-with-an-astrobiologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with an Astrobiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond the stars fascinates Dr Lewis Dartnell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3631\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3631\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/06\/20\/interview-with-an-astrobiologist\/06astrobiology_browse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/06Astrobiology_browse.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"420,432\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"06Astrobiology_browse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Is there life out there&amp;#8230;.?  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(Photo NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I interviewed Lewis for Imperial College Radio, and this podcast is the full conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp; We cover Dartnell&#8217;s core research in Martian radiation, the recently launched Kepler telescope, possible earth asteroid strikes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lewis describes how knowledge of conditions on other worlds might inform maintenance of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The noisy aircon is regrettable; and as a result the sound quality is less than ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dartnelfinal.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond the stars fascinates Dr Lewis Dartnell. I interviewed Lewis for Imperial College Radio, and this podcast is the full conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp; We cover Dartnell&#8217;s core research in Martian radiation, the recently launched Kepler telescope, possible earth asteroid strikes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lewis describes how knowledge of conditions on other worlds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/06\/20\/interview-with-an-astrobiologist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview with an Astrobiologist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638,175,279,172],"tags":[1423,1421,1003,628,644,621,623],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-climate","tag-astrobiology","tag-astronomy","tag-exoplanet","tag-extremophile","tag-kepler","tag-lewis-dartnell","tag-mars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/life.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-Ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18907,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/18907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}