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  title info:
    title: Life in the Universe
    sub title: Expectations and Constraints
  name:
    name part: Schulze-Makuch, Dirk.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Irwin, Louis N.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 343 p. 51 illus., 25 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This class-tested textbook examines the basic elements of living systems: energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats in crucial depth. These elements define the opportunities and limitations for life on other worlds. The book argues that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system than many assume. It also considers, however, the possibility of exotic forms of life based on backbones other than carbon, liquids other than water, and energy other than light. The authors offer an operational definition of life and summarize prevailing thoughts on plausible pathways for the origin of life on Earth and other worlds. They discuss remarkable adaptations to extreme environments, the nature and detection of geo- and biosignatures, the future and fate of living systems, and suggestions for the optimization of future exploratory space missions. The entire text has been thoroughly updated in this third edition, with new sections added on exoplanets, synthetic life, the search for extraterrestrial life, and a tour of the bodies in our Solar System for signs of conditions conducive for life. While informed speculation in this emerging field cannot be avoided, the authors have clearly distinguished between what is known as fact and what are reasonable expectations. They present an objective assessment of the plausibility of life on other worlds that is broad and deep enough for the expert and for use as an advanced text in astrobiology, while avoiding scientific jargon as much as possible to make this intrinsically interdisciplinary subject understandable to a broad range of readers.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Definition of Life -- Origin of Life -- Synthetic Life -- Lessons from the History of Life on Earth -- Energy Sources and Life -- Building Blocks of Life -- Life and the Need for a Solvent -- Habitats of Life -- Signatures of Life -- Life Detection-Past and Present -- Astrobiological Potential within the Solar System -- Exoplanets and Exomoons -- Ideas of Exotic Forms of Life -- The Future and Fate of Living Systems -- SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life -- Optimizing Space Exploration -- References -- Index.
  note: by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis N. Irwin.
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry, general
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  classification: QH327-328
  classification: 576.839
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
  identifier: 9783319976587
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97658-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 181119
    record change date: 20191028191025.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-97658-7