Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures covering topics so diverse as the formation and the distribution of elements in the universe, the concept of habitability from both the planetologists' and the biologists' point of view and artificial life. The contributions are held together by the common goal to understand better the origin of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the Earth's realm.
Author(s): Muriel Gargaud, Hervé Martin, Philippe Claeys (Eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 680
Tags: Биологические дисциплины;Астробиология;
3540336923......Page 1
Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics......Page 3
Lectures in Astrobiology
Volume II......Page 4
Foreword......Page 7
Preface......Page 10
Contents......Page 13
1 Stellar Nucleosynthesis......Page 21
2 Formation of the Solar System:
a Chronology Based on Meteorites......Page 64
3 The Formation of Crust and Mantle
of the Rocky Planets and the Mineral
Environment of the Origin of Life......Page 94
4 Water and Climates on Mars......Page 122
5 Planetary Atmospheres: From Solar System
Planets to Exoplanets......Page 142
6 What About Exoplanets?......Page 175
7 Habitability: the Point of View
of an Astronomer......Page 217
8 Habitability: the Point of View of a Biologist......Page 238
9 Impact Events and the Evolution of the Earth......Page 255
10 Towards a Global Earth Regulation......Page 297
11 The Last Common Ancestor of Modern Cells......Page 321
12 An Extreme Environment on Earth:
Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents.
Lessons for Exploration of Mars and Europa......Page 334
13 Comets, Titan and Mars:
Astrobiology and Space Projects......Page 361
14 Quantum Astrochemistry: Numerical
Simulation as an Alternative to Experiments......Page 443
15 Artificial Life or Digital Dissection......Page 504
Appendix......Page 560
