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11%OFFAthena Coustenis - Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe - 9781107026179 - V9781107026179
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Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe

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Description for Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe hardcover. An engaging account of our quest for habitable environments, recounting fascinating recent discoveries and providing insight into future space missions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 120 b/w illus. 32 colour illus. BIC Classification: PGS; TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 666.
What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are found, how can we explore them? In this book, two leading astrophysicists provide an engaging account of where we stand in our quest for habitable environments, in the Solar System and beyond. Starting from basic concepts, the narrative builds scientifically, including more in-depth material as boxed additions to the main text. The authors recount fascinating recent discoveries from space missions and observations using ground-based telescopes, of possible life-related artefacts in Martian meteorites, extrasolar planets, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107026179
SKU
V9781107026179
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About Athena Coustenis
Athena Coustenis is Director of Research at the French National Research Center (CNRS) and an astrophysicist at the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA) of Paris Observatory. She is Co-Investigator of three of the instruments (CIRS, HASI, DISR) aboard the Cassini/Huygens mission. Her expertise in space missions has allowed her to Chair and to contribute in several advisory ... Read more

Reviews for Life beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe
'A thorough tour of the possible abodes of life elsewhere in the cosmos, Life Beyond Earth unifies the study of planets in a way that should be more common but is still rare. Coustenis and Encrenaz provide a clear and engaging exposition of planetary habitability, giving an authoritative picture of the wealth of information that we have on planets and ... Read more

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