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Petar H. Lambrev

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Biosignatures of the Earth

I. Airborne spectropolarimetric detection of photosynthetic life

Context. Homochirality is a generic and unique property of life on Earth and is considered a universal and agnostic biosignature. Homochirality induces fractional circular polarization in the incident light that it reflects. Because this circularly polarized light can be sensed r ...