Searching for habitable worlds : an introduction /

What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? The Search for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and astronomy enthusiasts with a richly-illustrated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Méndez, Abel (Autor), González-Espada, Wilson J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Life on other planets.
Exobiology.
Habitable planets.
Outer space > Exploration.
Cosmology and the universe.
Astrophysics.
Physics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Exploring Earth and beyond
  • 1.1. Curiosity
  • 1.2. Observations from afar
  • 1.3. Personal visits
  • 1.4. Robotic visits
  • 2. The ABC of exoplanets
  • 2.1. What is a planet?
  • 2.2. What is an exoplanet?
  • 2.3. Detecting exoplanets
  • 3. When is a planet habitable?
  • 3.1. What is life?
  • 3.2. The concept of habitability
  • 3.3. Measuring habitability
  • 4. Cataloguing habitable exoplanets
  • 4.1. The first habitable worlds?
  • 4.2. The habitable exoplanets catalog
  • 4.3. The periodic table of exoplanets
  • 5. Potentially habitable worlds
  • 5.1. The planets we know by mass
  • 5.2. The planets we know by size
  • 6. And the search goes on ...
  • 6.1. The observatories
  • 6.2. NASA's Kepler
  • 6.3. NASA's TESS
  • 6.4. ESA's Plato
  • 6.5. NASA JWST.

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