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Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System
Paul Clancy
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Description for Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System
hardcover. Broad ranging book covering life, its origins, survival, and the search for other life in the Solar System. Num Pages: 364 pages, 76 b/w illus. 26 colour illus. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 732.
How did life begin on Earth? Is it confined to our planet? Will humans one day be able to travel long distances in space in search of other life forms? Written by three experts in the space arena, Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System aims to answer these and other intriguing questions. Beginning with what we understand of life on Earth, it describes the latest ideas about the chemical basis of life as we know it, and how they are influencing strategies to search for life elsewhere. It considers the ability of life, from microbes to humans, to survive ... Read more
How did life begin on Earth? Is it confined to our planet? Will humans one day be able to travel long distances in space in search of other life forms? Written by three experts in the space arena, Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System aims to answer these and other intriguing questions. Beginning with what we understand of life on Earth, it describes the latest ideas about the chemical basis of life as we know it, and how they are influencing strategies to search for life elsewhere. It considers the ability of life, from microbes to humans, to survive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521824507
SKU
V9780521824507
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14
About Paul Clancy
Paul Clancy is a senior strategic planning manager in the Human Spaceflight Directorate of the European Space Agency, in Paris. Andre Brack is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, Orleans. Gerda Horneck is Head of the Radiation Biology Section, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, ... Read more
Reviews for Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System
Review of the hardback: 'The authors of Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System have pooled their expertise to produce an accurate, up-to-date and highly readable survey of the field.' New Scientist Review of the hardback: '… serious students will find it very useful indeed.' Sky at Night Review of the hardback: 'The information within - the whole sweet mystery ... Read more