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Astrobiology: a very short introduction

by Catling, David C.

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Astrobiologists study the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond Earth; a question that has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. In this book David C. Catling introduces the latest scientific understanding of astrobiology, incorporating …

Astrobiology: understanding life in the Universe

by Cockell, Charles

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Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field that asks profound scientific questions. How did life originate on the Earth? How has life persisted on the Earth for over three billion years? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth? Astrobiology: …

The rock from Mars: a detective story on two planets

by Sawyer, Kathy

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Sixteen million years ago, an asteroid crashing into Mars sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was pulled by the Earth's gravity onto the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where a geologist spotted it. In its new home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the r…

Planetary Habitability

by Kane, Stephen R.

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Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era, and is a vast inter-disciplinary undertaking that combines planetary science, climate science, and stellar astrophysics. This book provides an overview of the many processes that i…

Alien Oceans: the search for life in the depths of space

by Hand, Kevin Peter

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Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several o…