Alien oceans : the search for life in the depths of space / Kevin Peter Hand.
Hand, Kevin, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2020
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Title Alien oceans : the search for life in the depths of space / Kevin Peter Hand.
Author Hand, Kevin, author.
ISBN 9780691189642 (electronic book)
0691189641 (electronic book)
9780691179513
0691179514
Published [Princeton, New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations.
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.839
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Acknowledgments
PART I: OCEANS NEAR AND FAR.
Prologue: The bottom
Chapter 1. Ocean worlds on Earth and beyond
Chapter 2. The new Goldilocks
PART II: DISCOVERING AN OCEAN IN THREE EASY PIECES.
Chapter 3. The rainbow connection
Chapter 4. Babysitting a spacecraft
Chapter 5. How I learned to love airport security
Chapter 6. Lady with a veil
Chapter 7. The queen of carbon
Chapter 8. Oceans everywhere
PART III: THE JOURNEY FROM HABITABLE TO INHABITED.
Chapter 9. Becoming inhabited
Chapter 10. Origins in an alien ocean
Chapter 11. Building an ocean world biosphere
Chapter 12. The octopus and the hammer
Chapter 13. A periodic table for life
Chapter 14. Seeking signs of life
Chapter 15. A new age of ocean exploration
Endnotes
Index.

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