n November 12, 2002, Dr. John Chambers of the NASA Ames - search Center gave a seminar to the Astrobiology Group at the OUniversity of Washington. The audience of about 100 listened with rapt attention as Chambers described results from a computer study of how planetary systems form. The goal of his research was to answer a dec- tively simple question: How often would newly forming planetary systems produce Earth-like planets, given a star the size of our own sun? By "Ear- like" Chambers meant a rocky planet with water on its surface, orbiting within a star's "habitable zone. " This...
n November 12, 2002, Dr. John Chambers of the NASA Ames - search Center gave a seminar to the Astrobiology Group at the OUniversity of Washington. The...
"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." --Publishers Weekly
Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of our planet. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vanguard of the new field of astrobiology. Combining their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our...
"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." --Pub...
Sind wir allein im Universum? Auf diese Frage geben der Geologe Peter D. Ward und der Astrobiologe Donald Brownlee uberraschende Antworten. Sie widersprechen der allgemeinen Annahme, dass hoher entwickeltes Leben ausserhalb der Erde existiert, vielleicht sogar weit verbreitet ist. Auf der Suche nach Leben im Universum nehmen sie den Leser mit auf eine spannende Reise von den heissen vulkanischen Quellen des Ozeanbodens bis zu dem frostigen Antlitz von Europa, dem Jupiter-Mond. Dabei lernt der Leser, dass niedrig entwickeltes Leben vielleicht weiter verbreitet ist, als bisher angenommen, die...
Sind wir allein im Universum? Auf diese Frage geben der Geologe Peter D. Ward und der Astrobiologe Donald Brownlee uberraschende Antworten. Sie widers...
