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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Earth as a Distant Planet
    sub title: A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds
  name:
    name part: Vázquez, M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pallé, E.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Montañés Rodríguez, P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 422 p. 272 illus., 181 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Is the Earth, in some way, special? Or is our planet but one of the millions of other inhabited planets within our galaxy? This is an exciting time to be asking this old question, because for the first time in history, the answer is within reach. In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors set themselves as external observers of our Solar System from an astronomical distance. From that perspective, the authors describe how the Earth, the third planet in distance to the central star, can be catalogued as having its own unique features and as capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective is then applied to the ongoing search for planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets. Since the discovery in 1992 of the first exoplanet, the number of known planets has increased exponentially. Ambitious space missions are already being designed for the characterization of their atmospheres and to explore the possibility that they host life. The exploration of Earth and the rest of the rocky planets in our Solar System will help us in classifying and understanding the multiplicity of planetary systems that exist in our galaxy. In time, statistics on the formation and evolution of exoplanets will be available and will provide vital information for solving some of the unanswered questions about the formation, as well as the evolution, of our own world. The authors provide an introductory but also very much up-to-date referenced text, making this book useful not only for the layman, but also for researchers and advanced students in Astrophysics and Earth Sciences.
  table of contents: Observing the Earth -- The Earth in Time -- The Pale Blue Dot -- The Outer Layers of the Earth -- Biosignatures and the Search for Life on Earth -- Detecting Extrasolar Earth-like Planets -- The Worlds Out There -- Extrasolar Planetary Systems -- Is Our Environment Special?.
  note: by M. Vázquez, E. Pallé, P. Montañés Rodríguez.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 523.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
  identifier: 9781441916846
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1684-6
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    record creation date: 100316
    record change date: 20151204172652.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-1684-6