Life beyond Earth : the search for habitable worlds in the Universe /
What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are found, how can we explore them? In this book, two leading astrophysicists provide an engaging account of where we stand in our quest for habitab...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is life and where can it exist?
- Terrestrial planets and their diverging evolutions
- Searching for habitable sites in the outer Solar System
- A revolution in astronomy : the exploration of extrasolar planets
- Extraterrestrial inhabited sites in the future.