Ozma project

Ozma project

(oz -mă) A pioneering project in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The 26-meter radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, was used by Frank Drake in 1960 for about 150 hours in an unsuccessful attempt to detect signals – the 21-cm hydrogen line emission – from other civilizations. The targets were the two nearest and most sunlike stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. See also exobiology; SETI.