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Purple Bacteria -- Not Green Plants -- Might Be the Strongest Indication of Life


Astrobiologists continue to work towards determining which biosignatures might be best to look for when searching for life on other worlds. The most common idea has been to search for evidence of plants that use the green pigment chlorophyll, like we have on Earth.

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