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About Life

This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living ...

Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented ...

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life : Caught in the Act of Formation

This book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into ...

An Assessment Framework for Compliance with International Space Law and Norms

proposes a framework for assessing countries’ levels of compliance with international space law and norms. It begins by ...

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, ...

Cold Aqueous Planetary Geochemistry with FREZCHEM : From Modeling to the Search for Life at the Limits

At the core of the technical chapters is the FREZCHEM model, initially developed over many years by one of the authors to ...

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as ...

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names : Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2006 - 2008

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the ...

From Fossils to Astrobiology : Records of Life on Earth and Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field ...

Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets

This book has resulted from a workshop at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland (5-9 September ...

Intelligent Life in the Universe

This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...

Ionospheric Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Tools Approaches for Deriving Ionospheric Parameters

This book provides a comprehensive toolbox of analysis techniques for ionospheric multi-satellite missions. The immediate ...

La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell’Universo = The music of the Big Bang: How the cosmic background radiation revealed the secrets of the Universe to us

Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...

Life as We Know It

Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution ...

Life in the Universe : Expectations and Constraints

Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations ...

Lights in the Sky

Lights in the Sky is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical ...

Lonely Minds in the Universe

This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological ...

Microbiology of Extreme Soils

This volume provides an excellent introduction to the study of extreme soil micro-biology, and a variety of the challenging ...

Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth’s Surface : Recent Advances

Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and ...

Neutron Stars 1

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...

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