Paul Clancy, Andre Brack, Gerda Horneck

Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Broad ranging book covering life, its origins, survival, and the search for other life in the Solar System.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521124546
• ISBN-10: 0521124549
• Artikelnr.: 27284311

Autorenporträt

Paul Clancy is a senior strategic planning manager in the Human Spaceflight Directorate of the European Space Agency, in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Imperative of Exploration: 1. Exploration as a metaphor
Part II. How Can We Know Life?: 2. The molecular basis of life on Earth
3. The limits to life
4. The transfer of life between planets
5. What are the signatures of life?
6. After the discovery/life as a cosmic phenomenon
Part III. The Search for Life Beyond Earth: 7. The prospects for long-duration human space-flight
8. Human exploration and the search for life
9. Interplanetary ethics
Part IV. The Cosmic Biological Imperative: 10. The key technologies for human planetary exploration
11. Exploration in space
12. Exploration in time
13. Prediction, imagination and the role of technology
Part IV. Our Cosmic Destiny: 14. Our cosmic destiny
Appendices
Index.