Life as we do not know it : the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life / Peter D. Ward.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2005Description: xxvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0670034584Subject(s): Life on other planets | Life -- OriginDDC classification: 576.8/39 LOC classification: QB54 | .W335 2005Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionCurrent library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 629.44/WARD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844400145005 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.
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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