This is from the foundation that put out the announcement, Pale Red Dot.
A lot of difficulties, but the best thing put forward, is that if an earthlike planet is circling the closest star, that they should be relatively common.
https://palereddot.org/opportunities-and-obstacles-for-life-on-proxima-b/
And the Breakthru Starshot meeting just over, and this system is still a good target, but not the only one.
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36265
and they did some modeling of the dust abrasion on the wafer probes, most won’t make it.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2102267-interstellar-probes-will-be-eroded-on-the-way-to-alpha-centauri/
Opportunities and Obstacles for Life on Proxima b
This is from the foundation that put out the announcement, Pale Red Dot.
A lot of difficulties, but the best thing put forward, is that if an earthlike planet is circling the closest star, that they should be relatively common.
https://palereddot.org/opportunities-and-obstacles-for-life-on-proxima-b/
And the Breakthru Starshot meeting just over, and this system is still a good target, but not the only one.
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36265
and they did some modeling of the dust abrasion on the wafer probes, most won’t make it.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2102267-interstellar-probes-will-be-eroded-on-the-way-to-alpha-centauri/