Book Details

Strategies of Life Detection

Publication year: 2008

: 978-0-387-77516-6

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The search for life outside the Earth has been one of mankind's most challenging quests. We have reached a level of technology that allows for initial steps toward thorough scientific investigation. The aim of this workshop was to take an interdisciplinary look at the signatures that would be indicative of past or present life on another planet and compare them to biosignatures on Earth. The purpose of the workshop was also to discuss state-of-the-art in-situ instruments that are envisioned to search for these signatures in the exploration of the solar system, as well as the discussion of concepts descriptive of the search for habitable planets around other stars.


: Physics and Astronomy, Accretion, astrobiology, biosignatures in space, extrasolar planets, genes, in-situ instruments, life detection strategies, life on exoplanets, origin of life, space instrumentation, Astrobiology, Space Sciences, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Planetology, Biochemistr, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques