Hand, Kevin Peter, <br/><br/>
Alien oceans :  the search for life in the depths of space / 
Kevin Peter Hand. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) :  color illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> OCEANS NEAR AND FAR.  The bottom --  Ocean worlds on Earth and beyond --  The new Goldilocks --  DISCOVERING AN OCEAN IN THREE EASY PIECES.  The rainbow connection --  Babysitting a spacecraft --  How I learned to love airport security --  Lady with a veil --  The queen of carbon --  Oceans everywhere --  THE JOURNEY FROM HABITABLE TO INHABITED.  Becoming inhabited --  Origins in an alien ocean --  Building an ocean world biosphere --  The octopus and the hammer --  A periodic table for life --  Seeking signs of life --  A new age of ocean exploration --  Acknowledgments -- PART I:  Prologue:  Chapter 1.  Chapter 2.  PART II:  Chapter 3.  Chapter 4.  Chapter 5.  Chapter 6.  Chapter 7.  Chapter 8.  PART III:  Chapter 9.  Chapter 10.  Chapter 11.  Chapter 12.  Chapter 13.  Chapter 14.  Chapter 15.  Endnotes -- Index. 
<br/><br/> "Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system. Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? Alien Oceans reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out. Kevin Peter Hand is one of today's leading NASA scientists, and his pioneering research has taken him on expeditions around the world. In this captivating account of scientific discovery, he brings together insights from planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist within moons of the outer solar system, like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. He shows how the exploration of Earth's oceans is informing our understanding of the potential habitability of these icy moons, and draws lessons from what we have learned about the origins of life on our own planet to consider how life could arise on these distant worlds. Alien Oceans describes what lies ahead in our search for life in our solar system and beyond, setting the stage for the transformative discoveries that may await us."-- 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691189641 9780691189642 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1515/9780691189642.  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>5B987140-7816-4AEA-9D0F-F4C1A19177EA  OverDrive, Inc.  http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctvqs38x2  JSTOR 9453327  IEEE 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Life on other planets.<br/>Exobiology.<br/>Vie extraterrestre.<br/>Exobiologie.<br/>SCIENCE--Space Science.<br/>Exobiology.<br/>Life on other planets.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB54  / .H35 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>576.839