Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
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عنوان ژورنال: Astrobiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1531-1074,1557-8070
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2005.5.372