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  title info:
    title: Biosignatures for Astrobiology
  name:
    name part: Cavalazzi, Barbara.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Westall, Frances.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 347 p. 64 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book aims at providing a brief but broad overview of biosignatures. The topics addressed range from prebiotic signatures in extraterrestrial materials to the signatures characterising extant life as well as fossilised life, biosignatures related to space, and space flight instrumentation to detect biosignatures either in situ or from orbit. The book ends with philosophical reflections on the implications of life elsewhere. In the 15 chapters written by an interdisciplinary team of experts, it provides both detailed explanations on the nature of biosignatures as well as useful case studies showing how they are used and identified in ancient rocks, for example. One case study addresses the controversial finding of traces of fossil life in a meteorite from Mars. The book will be of interest not only to astrobiologists but also to terrestrial paleontologists as well as any reader interested in the prospects of finding a second example of life on another planet.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Chemical Biosignatures at the Origins -- Organic Matter in Interplanetary Dusts and Meteorites -- Biosignatures of Cellular Components and Metabolic Activity -- The Deep Subseafloor and Biosignatures -- A Systematic Way to Life Detection - Combining Field, Lab and Space Research in Low Earth Orbit -- Mineralogical Identification of Traces of Life -- Biosignatures in Deep Time -- The Search for Biosignatures in Martian Meteorite Allan Hills 84001 -- Role of Mineral Surfaces in Prebiotic Processes and Space-like Conditions -- Photochemistry and Photoreactions of Organic Molecules in Space -- Exoplanetary Biosignatures for Astrobiology -- The Enigma of Methane on Mars -- Detection of Biosignatures Using Raman Spectroscopy -- Searching for Signs of Life on Other Planets: Mars a Case Study -- The History and Philosophy of Biosignatures.
  note: edited by Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall.
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Biology-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry, general
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Biology
  classification: QH327-328
  classification: 576.839
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics
  identifier: 9783319961750
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 181001
    record change date: 20191026122246.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-96175-0