Interconnectedness is one of the most beautiful and profound aspects of reality. Nothing exists in isolation, so almost anything can be described by a graph—a network of nodes (objects) and links (interactions).
With colleagues at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and funding from the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, I am developing novel techniques for describing planetary atmospheric chemistry though the lens of network science. In a recent paper, we examine the network topologies of atmospheric chemistry across the Solar System. Our hope is that our research will one day add a new tool to humanity's scientific arsenal for characterizing faraway worlds and searching for signs of life.
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