Water worlds in the Solar System. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Antony Joseph.
• Authors: Joseph, Antony
• Contents: 1. Knowing Earth to Better Understand Extraterrestrial Worlds 2. Terrestrial Analogues and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents - Their Roles in Exploring Ocean Worlds, Habitability, and Life beyond Earth 3. Biosignatures - the Prime Targets in the Search for Life beyond Earth 4. Significance of Earthly Extremophiles in the Search for Habitability beyond Earth 5. Lunar Explorations: Discovering Water, Minerals, and Underground Caves and Tunnel Complexes - Hope for Human Settlement and Resource Exploitation? 6. Liquid Water Lake Under Ice in Mars’s Southern Hemisphere - Possibility of Subsurface Biosphere and Life 7. Could Near-Earth Watery Asteroid Ceres Be a Likely Ocean World and Habitable? 8. Water on Near-Earth Asteroid Vesta - Past and Present 9. An Ocean and Volcanic Seafloor Hiding Within Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa - Eruption of Water Vapour Plumes Near its South and North Poles 10. Salty Ocean and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents on Saturn's Moon Enceladus - Tall Plume of Gas, Jets of Water Vapour and Organic-Enriched Ice Particles Spewing from its South Pole 11. Hydrocarbon Lakes and Seas & Internal Ocean on Titan - Resemblance with Primitive Earth's Prebiotic Chemistry 12. A Likely Ocean World Fostering a Rare Mixing of CO and N2 Ice Molecules on Neptune's Moon Triton 13. Subsurface Ocean of Liquid Water on Pluto 14. Hunting for Environments Favorable to Life on Planets, Moons, Dwarf Planets, and Meteorites
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 523.02; Planets -- Water; Cosmochemistry; Space sciences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323957182
• Related ISBNs: 9780323957175
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