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LIFE ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES
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| By: |
Arnold Hanslmeier (Editor), Stephan Kempe (Editor), Joseph Seckbach (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£159.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9400749651 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789400749658 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
30 October, 2012 |
| Edition: |
2012 ed. |
| Series: |
Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology 24 |
| Pages: |
534 |
| Description: |
This volume covers aspects of life on Earth with all its diversity and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. It presents contributions by experts from 20 countries who discuss astrobiology emphasizing life "as we know it" to extraterrestrial places. |
| Synopsis: |
A trio of editors [Professors from Austria, Germany and Israel] present Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies. The contributors are from twenty various countries and present their research on life here as well as the possibility for extraterrestrial life. This volume covers concepts such as life's origin, hypothesis of Panspermia and of life possibility in the Cosmos. The topic of extraterrestrial life is currently `hot' and the object of several congresses and conferences. While the diversity of "normal" biota is well known, life on the edge of the extremophiles is more limited and less distributed. Other subjects discussed are Astrobiology with the frozen worlds of Mars, Europa and Titan where extant or extinct microbial life may exist in subsurface oceans; conditions on icy Mars with its saline, alkaline, and liquid water which has been recently discovered; chances of habitable Earth-like [or the terrestrial analogues] exoplanets; and SETI's search for extraterrestrial Intelligence. |
| Illustrations: |
XIV, 534 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |