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Is Life Just Different?
In 1993, a team led by Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that life exists on Earth using data from the Galileo spacecraft, which had observed the planet three years earlier during its journey to Jupiter. The study highlighted life's transformative power as detectable through remote observations.
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