Hanslmeier, Arnold
Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies
1. Pathways to Life on Earth and Other Planetary Bodies
Joseph Seckbach
2. Introduction
Giora Shaviv
3. Halophiles, Continental Evaporites and the Search for Biosignatures in Environmental Analogues for Mars
Roberto Barbieri, Nunzia Stivaletta
4. Vesicular Basalts as a Niche for Microbial Life
Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall, Sherry L. Cady
5. SETI: Assessing Imaginative Proposals
Stephen P. Cook
6. Molecules Between the Stars
Nick Cox
7. Prokaryotic Communities Below Planetary Surfaces and Their Involvement in the Nitrogen Cycle
Friedrich W. Gerbl, Gerhard W. Weidler, Angelika Breitfuss, Marion Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer, Helga Stan-Lotter
8. Extrasolar Planets
Eike W. Guenther
9. “Life Without Water”: The Sleeping Chironomid and Other Anhydrobiotic Invertebrates and Their Utilization in Astrobiology
Oleg Gusev, Takashi Okuda
10. Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes
Arnold Hanslmeier
11. Glaciopanspermia: Seeding the Terrestrial Planets with Life?
Joop M. Houtkooper
12. Chemical Evolution in Primeval Seas
Kamaluddin
13. Terrestrial Analogues for Early Planetary Oceans: NIUAFO‘OU CALDERA LAKES (Tonga) and Their Geology, Water Chemistry, and Stromatolites
Stephan Kempe, Józef Kazmierczak
14. Comparison of Environment Types with Liquid Water on Mars
Ákos Kereszturi
15. Criteria of Possible Habitability of Earthlike Exoplanets
Leonid V. Ksanfomality
16. Origin of the Genetic Code and Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds
Zita Martins
17. Dynamical Aspects for the Earth’s Habitability
Elke Pilat-Lohinger
18. A Dynamic Scheme to Assess Habitability of Exoplanets
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Abel Méndez, Alberto G. Fairén, Philip Paris, Carol Turse, Grayson Boyer, Alfonso F. Davila, Marina Resendes de Sousa António
19. Astrobiology of Titan
Michae Simakov
20. The Likelihood of Halophilic Life in the Universe
Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, Marion Dorn-Mayr-Pfaffenhuemer, Tatjana K. Polacsek, Andrea Legat, Anita k. Holzinger, Michael Grösbacher, Andreas Weigl
21. Production of Dormant Stages and Stress Resistance of Polar Cyanobacteria
Daria Tashyreva, Josef Elster
22. Can the Evolution of Multicellularity Be Anticipated in the Exploration of the Solar System?
Harold P. Vladar, Julian Chela-Flores
23. Antarctica as Model for the Possible Emergence of Life on Europa
Suman Dudeja, Aranya B. Bhattacherjee, Julian Chela-Flores
24. The Likelihood of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
Rob Hengeveld
25. The Astrobiological Potential of Polar Dunes on Mars
Ákos Kereszturi, Szaniszló Bérczi, András Horváth, Tamás Pócs, András Sik, Szathmáry Eörs
26. Life in Earth’s Lava Caves: Implications for Life Detection on Other Planets
Diana E. Northup, Jennifer J. M. Hathaway, Jessica R. Snider, Monica Moya Balasch, Matthew G. Garcia, Maria L. N. Enes Dapkevicius, Cristina Riquelme Gabriel, Fred D. Stone, Michael N. Spilde, Penelope J. Boston
27. Life in the Saturnian Neighborhood
Athena Coustenis, Francois Raulin, Georgios Bampasidis, Anezina Solomonidou
Nyckelord: Physics, Astrobiology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Författare
- Hanslmeier, Arnold
- Kempe, Stephan
- Seckbach, Joseph
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 2012
- Serie
- Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
- Sidantal
- 14 sidor
- Kategori
- Naturvetenskaper
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400749665