Paul Clancy, André Brack, Gerda Horneck

Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This is a fascinating and broad ranging book, suitable for the general reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780521824507
• ISBN-10: 0521824508
• Artikelnr.: 21068967

Autorenporträt

Paul Clancy is a senior strategic planning manager in the Human Spaceflight Directorate of the European Space Agency, in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Imperative of Exploration: 1. Exploration as a metaphor
Part II. How Can We Know Life?: 2. The molecular basis of life on Earth
3. The limits to life
4. The transfer of life between planets
5. What are the signatures of life?
6. After the discovery/life as a cosmic phenomenon
Part III. The Search for Life Beyond Earth: 7. The prospects for long-duration human space-flight
8. Human exploration and the search for life
9. Interplanetary ethics
Part IV. The Cosmic Biological Imperative: 10. The key technologies for human planetary exploration
11. Exploration in space
12. Exploration in time
13. Prediction, imagination and the role of technology
Part IV. Our Cosmic Destiny: 14. Our cosmic destiny
Appendices
Index.