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

By:

Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2005.Description: xxvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0670034584

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DDC classification:

576.8/39 22

LOC classification:

QB54 .W335 2005

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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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	University Library	Circulating	QB54 .W335 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Copy 1	Available
Book	University Library Regular Circulation	Circulating	QB54 W37 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		3UPML00027341

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

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