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Water Worlds in the Solar System
About this book
Water Worlds in the Solar System: In Search of Habitable Environments and Life is a comprehensive reference on the formation, availability, habitability potential, and astrobiological implications of water in the Solar System. The book provides understanding of the importance of water on Earth to elucidate potential water and biosignature sources on other bodies in the Solar System. It covers processes involved in the formation of Earth and its Moon, genesis of water on those bodies, events on early Earth, and other processes that are applicable to celestial bodies in the Solar System, directly correlating data available on water on other bodies to over 15 Earth analogue sites.
This book forms a comprehensive overview on water in the Solar System, from formation to biosignature and habitability considerations. It is ideal for academics, researchers and students working in the field of planetary science, extraterrestrial water research and habitability potential.
- Presents a comprehensive reference on water in the Solar System, developing readers' understanding of the importance and occurrence of water on Earth and beyond, all from an oceanographer's perspective
- Contrasts terrestrial analogues in relation to their roles in understanding and exploring ocean worlds and habitability
- Includes numerous figures, illustrations, tables and videos to help readers better understand concepts covered
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter 1: Solar/planetary formation and evolution
- Chapter 2: Geological timeline of significant events on Earth
- Chapter 3: Beginnings of life on Earth
- Chapter 4: Biosignatures—The prime targets in the search for life beyond Earth
- Chapter 5: Extremophiles—Organisms that survive and thrive in extreme environmental conditions
- Chapter 6: Salinity tolerance of inhabitants in thalassic and athalassic saline and hypersaline waters & salt flats
- Chapter 7: Terrestrial analogs & submarine hydrothermal vents—their roles in exploring ocean worlds, habitability, and life beyond earth
- Chapter 8: Surface environment evolution for Venus, Earth, and Mars—the planets which began with the same inventory of elements
- Chapter 9: Lunar explorations—Discovering water, minerals, and underground caves and tunnel complexes
- Chapter 10: Liquid water lake under ice in Mars’s southern hemisphere—Possibility of subsurface biosphere and life
- Chapter 11: Could near-Earth watery asteroid Ceres be a likely ocean world and habitable?
- Chapter 12: An ocean and volcanic seafloor hiding below the icy crust of Jupiter’s Moon Europa—Plumes of water vapor rising over 160 km above its surface
- Chapter 13: Salty ocean and submarine hydrothermal vents on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus—Tall plume of gas, jets of water vapor & organic-enriched ice particles spewing from its south pole
- Chapter 14: Hydrocarbon lakes and seas & internal ocean on Titan—Resemblance with primitive earth’s prebiotic chemistry
- Chapter 15: A likely ocean world fostering a rare mixing of CO and N2 ice molecules on Neptune’s Moon Triton
- Chapter 16: Subsurface ocean of liquid water on Pluto
- Chapter 17: Hunting for environments favorable to life on planets, moons, dwarf planets, and meteorites
- Chemical names and their chemical formulae
- Water Worlds in the Solar System: Exploring Prospects of Extraterrestrial Habitability & Life
- Definition/Meaning
- Index