Alien Oceans - The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

Zusatztext "Superb. . . . Alien Oceans is a delightful way to open the door to the discoveries that have already been made in this area of research as well as what questions are seeking to be answered now and what aspirations researchers have for the future." ---Johannes E. Riutta, The Well-read Naturalist Informationen zum Autor Kevin Peter Hand Klappentext "Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths?"--Publisher marketing. Zusammenfassung Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Hand, Hand Kevin
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780691227283
• ISBN: 978-0-691-22728-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, NATURE / Sky Observation, Space Science, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space, Earth Sciences, SCIENCE / Space Science / General