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Title

Water on Mars and life / Tetsuya Tokano (ed.).

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.

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Tokano, Tetsuya

Description

xviii, 331 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

""Water on Mars and Life" surveys recent advances made in research into water on Mars together with its astrobiological implications. This volume addresses not only scientists working in the field but also nonspecialists and students in search of a high-level but accessible introduction to this field of research."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics, 1610-8957

Uniform Title

• Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics
• Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics ; 4.

Subject

• Astrobiology
• Astrophysics
• Biogeosciences
• Evolution, Planetary
• Exobiology
• Exobiology
• Extraterrestrial Environment > chemistry
• Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
• Geophysics/Geodesy
• Life sciences
• Mars
• Mars (Planet) > Geology
• Mars (Planet) > Water
• Physical geography
• Physics
• Physics
• Water

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origins of martian water : what we can learn from meteorites / Lee Baker, Ian A. Franchi, Ian P. Wright -- Atmospheric evolution and the history of water on Mars / Helmut Lammer, Franck Selsis, Thomas Penz, Ute V. Amerstorfer, Herbert I.M. Lichtenegger, Christoph Kolb, Ignasi Ribas -- Early life on earth and analogies to Mars / Frances Westall -- Hydrated minerals on Mars / Janice L. Bishop -- Global distribution of subsurface water measured by Mars Odyssey / Igor G. Mitrofanov -- Polar caps / Christine S. Hvidberg -- Ground ice in the Martian regolith / Ruslan O. Kuzmin -- Water cycle in the atmosphere and shallow subsurface / Tetsuya Tokano -- Polar lakes, streams, and springs as analogs for the hydrological cycle on Mars / Christopher P. McKay, Dale T. Andersen, Wayne H. Pollard, Jennifer L. Heldmann, Peter T. Doran, Christian H. Fritsen, John C. Priscu -- Ancient and recent lakes on Mars / Nathalie A. Cabrol, Edmond A. Grin -- Impact craters, water and microbial life / Charles S. Cockell, Darlene S.S. Lim -- Microbial life in brines, evaporites and saline sediments : the search for life on Mars / Rocco L. Mancinelli -- Microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents : lessons for Mars exploration / Daniel Prieur.

ISBN

3540206248 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

^^2004105863

OCLC

56583046

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library