Astronomy:Abel Méndez
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Short description: Planetary astrobiologist
Professor Abel Méndez is a planetary astrobiologist and Director, at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. His research focuses on the habitability of potentially habitable exoplanets. Méndez is also a NASA MIRS Fellow with research experience at NASA, and the Arecibo Observatory.[1][2]
He is best known for being one of the scientists who developed the Earth Similarity Index, a proposed characterization of how similar a planetary-mass object or natural satellite is to Earth.[3]
References
- ↑ "Las "misteriosas señales" que astrónomos de Puerto Rico captaron provenientes de Ross 128, una estrella cercana a la Tierra" (in es). BBC News Mundo. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-40651006.
- ↑ "Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo". http://phl.upr.edu/about/abel_mendez.
- ↑ Schulze-Makuch, Dirk; Méndez, Abel; Fairén, Alberto G.; von Paris, Philip; Turse, Carol; Boyer, Grayson; Davila, Alfonso F.; António, Marina Resendes De Sousa et al. (2011). "A Two-Tiered Approach to Assessing the Habitability of Exoplanets" (in en). Astrobiology 11 (10): 1041–1052. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0592. ISSN 1531-1074. PMID 22017274. Bibcode: 2011AsBio..11.1041S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AsBio..11.1041S/abstract.
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