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Title:
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How to find a habitable planet
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Authors:
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James F. Kasting
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010
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Series:
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Science essentials series
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-691-13805-3
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Size:
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xiv, 326 p. / col. ill. / 25 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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QB820
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Subjects:
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Exobiology
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Habitable planets
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Description:
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Past thinking about Earth-like planets and life -- Our habitable Planet Earth. Critical updates on how planets are built ; Long-term climate stability ; More wrinkles in Earth's climate history ; Runaway glaciation and "Snowball Earth" -- Limits to planetary habitability. Runaway greenhouses and the evolution of Venus' atmosphere ; The future evolution of Earth ; The Martian climate puzzle ; Is the Earth rare? ; Habitable zones around stars -- How to find another Earth. Indirect detection of planets around other stars ; Finding and characterizing planets by using transits ; Direct detection of extrasolar planets ; The spectroscopic search for life ; Prospects for the more distant future.
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