Search for Life's Origins : Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, National Research Council
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1990.
Colección:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Temas:
Life > Origin.
Molecular evolution.
Space biology.
Évolution moléculaire.
Biologie spatiale.
Molecular evolution
Space biology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Search for Life's Origins
  • Copyright
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • OVERVIEW
  • THE COSMIC HISTORY OF THE BIOGENIC ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS
  • EARLY PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
  • THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
  • THE EVOLUTION OF CELLULAR AND MULTICELLULAR LIFE
  • SEARCH FOR LIFE OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  • MAJOR RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Recommendations Requiring Flight Opportunities
  • Mars
  • Comets and Asteroids
  • Titan and the Giant Outer Planets
  • The Interstellar Medium and Cosmic Dust ParticlesRecommendations Requiring Ground-Based Studies
  • Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life
  • Mars-Related Studies
  • Studies Related to Comets and Asteroids
  • Studies Related to Titan and the Giant Outer Planets
  • Studies Related to the Interstellar Medium and Dust
  • Studies Related to the Search for Life Outside the Solar System
  • SPACE SCIENCE PROGRAM AND POLICY ISSUES
  • 1 Overview
  • 2 The Cosmic History of the Biogenic Elements and Compounds
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SYSTEMATIC STUDIES OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS
  • COMPLEX MOLECULESSTAR-FORMING REGIONS AND THE SUBMILLIMETER SPECTRAL RANGE
  • GRAIN INTERRELATIONSHIPS
  • INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND ASTRONOMY
  • GRAIN INTERACTIONS
  • Future Investigations
  • ASTEROIDS
  • Future Investigations
  • METEORITES
  • Future Investigations
  • COMETS AND INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES
  • Comets
  • Interplanetary Dust Particles
  • Future Investigations
  • 3 Early Planetary Environments: Implications for Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE OUTER PLANETS
  • THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
  • Earth
  • Accretion by ImpactsTectonics and the Development of Earth's Early Atmosphere and Hydrosphere
  • Impacts and Their Influence on Environmental Conditions for the Origin Maintenance of Life
  • Mars
  • Aqueous Environments
  • Differences between Mars and Earth
  • Large Impacts on Mars
  • Prospects for Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life on Mars
  • 4 The Origin of Life
  • 5 The Evolution of Cellular and Multicellular Life
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Metabolic Diversity
  • PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS
  • 6 Search for Life outside the Solar System
  • INTRODUCTION
  • APPROACHES TO THE DETECTION OF LIFE OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEMSCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
  • MEASUREMENT REQUIREMENTS
  • Detecting Extrasolar Planets
  • Indirect Detection
  • Direct Detection
  • Studying Nebulae and Disks
  • Spectroscopic Analyses of Planetary Atmospheres
  • Searching for Extraterrestrial Technologies
  • Technologies That Generate Electromagnetic Signals
  • Technologies That Do Not Generate Electromagnetic Signals
  • Available Measurement Accuracies
  • 7 Major Research Recommendations
  • RECOMMENDATIONS REQUIRING FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES
  • Mars

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