Abel Méndez
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". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ^ "Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo". phl.upr.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- PMID 22017274.
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