Life as we do not know it : the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life / Peter D. Ward.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2005.Description: xxvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670034584 : HRD
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.8/39 22
LOC classification:
  • QB54 .W335 2005
Contents:
What is life? -- What is earth life? -- Life as we do not know it -- A recipe book of life -- The artificial synthesis of life -- Are there aliens already on earth? -- Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system -- Mercury and Venus -- Fossils on the moon -- Mars -- Europa -- Titan -- Implications, ethics, and dangers -- A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and biochemists to Titan -- A forest of life?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

What is life? -- What is earth life? -- Life as we do not know it -- A recipe book of life -- The artificial synthesis of life -- Are there aliens already on earth? -- Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system -- Mercury and Venus -- Fossils on the moon -- Mars -- Europa -- Titan -- Implications, ethics, and dangers -- A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and biochemists to Titan -- A forest of life?

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