SF2A-2007: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, eds. J. Bouvier, A. Chalabaev and C. Charbonnel, n/a, p. 489 (2007)
The search for life in extrasolar planets is to be tested first with the only planet known to shelter life. If the planet Earth is used as an example to search for a signature of life, the vegetation is one of its possible detectable signature, using the Vegetation Red Edge due to chlorophyll in the near infrared (0.725 m). We focus on a test...
XXVI th IAU General Assembly, n/a, (2006)
So as to prepare future observations of terrestrial extrasolar planets liable to shelter life, we attempt to detect the life on the Earth seen as a dot. We use the Moon Earthshine, in which any place reflects the totality of the enlightened part of Earth facing the Moon. Observing from OHP and from ESO, we detected terrestrial chlorophyll in...