Planetary astrobiology / edited by V.S. Meadows, G.N. Arney, B.E. Schmidt, D.J. Des Marais ; with the assistance of Renée Dotson ; with 50 collaborating authors.
"Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond Earth? These profound questions excite and intrigue broad cross sections of science and society. Answering these questions is the province of the emerging, strongly interdisciplinary field of astro...
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The University of Arizona Press ; Lunar and Planetary Institute,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Earth: lessons learned from a terrestrial planet. Creation of a habitable planet
- Life's requirements, habitability, and biological potential
- The environmental roots of the origins of life
- Life as a planetary process
- Detecting life on Earth and the limits of analogy
- Part 2: Astrobiology in our solar system. Planetary astrobiology: early Mars
- The biological potential of present-day Mars
- The astrobiology of Europa and the Jovian system
- Enceladus
- The astrobiology of Titan
- Planetary protection in planetary exploration missions
- Part 3: The solar system: exoplanet synergy. Solar system formation in the context of extrasolar planets
- Origins of Earth's water: sources and constraints
- Venus as an analog for hot Earths
- Earth as an exoplanet
- Part 4: Synthesis. The inner solar system's habitability through time
- Characterizing exoplanet habitability
- Probabilistic frameworks for life detection
- Unifying themes and future work in planetary astrobiology.