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Świeżyński, Adam. "Sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej „Astrobiology and Society. Third Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology”, European Astrobiology Institute – Lund University, Höör, 3-4.06.2022 r." Studia Philosophiae Christianae 58, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/spch.2022.58.s.03.

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W dniach 3-4 czerwca 2022 roku w Höör (Szwecja) odbyła się międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa, poświęcona problematyce astrobiologii: Astrobiology and Society. Third Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology, zorganizowana przez European Astrobiology Institute i Uniwersytet w Lund. Uczestnicy konferencji zaprezentowali tematy z zakresu historii, filozofii, socjologii, literaturoznawstwa i teologii, które dotyczyły problematyki astrobiologicznej. Konferencja była okazją do przedstawienia wyników badań humanistycznych, inspirowanych ustaleniami współczesnej astrobiologii oraz wymiany poglądów na temat znaczenia tych badań. ------------------------- Zgłoszono: 18/06/2022. Zrecenzowano: 05/09/2022. Zaakceptowano do publikacji: 14/10/2022.
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Maddison, S. T. "Teaching Astrobiology Online." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 213 (2004): 542–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900193866.

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As part of Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO), we run an online short course entitled Searching for Extrasolar Planets and Extraterrestrial Life. The main aim of the short course is to act as a “feeder” into our graduate programs and allow students to trial online education while exploring one of the new hot topics of astronomy – astrobiology.I will present a brief overview of how SAO works, followed by an outline of our short course which has been running for four semesters. In particular, I will focus on why astrobiology is a good choice of topics for an online short course, and look at the successes (and failures) of the course in attracting students to both online education and astronomy –and astrobiology in particular.
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Parro, Víctor, J. Miguel Mas-Hesse, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Álvaro Giménez, and Juan Pérez-Mercader. "Introduction—Centro de Astrobiología: 20 Years Building Astrobiology." Astrobiology 20, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): 1025–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2020.0804.

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Ortega Gutiérrez, Fernando. "Astrobiology." Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 67, no. 3 (2015): xix. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/bsgm2015v67n3p3.

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TAMURA, Motohide, and Akihiko YAMAGISHI. "Astrobiology." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 18, no. 11 (2013): 11_59–11_63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.18.11_59.

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Soffen, G. A. "Astrobiology." Advances in Space Research 23, no. 2 (January 1999): 283–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0273-1177(99)00048-4.

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Berry, Suzanne. "Astrobiology." Trends in Biotechnology 19, no. 3 (March 2001): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7799(01)01597-9.

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Lawler, A. "ASTROBIOLOGY: Astrobiology Fights for Its Life." Science 315, no. 5810 (January 19, 2007): 318–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.315.5810.318.

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Riccardi, Anthony, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Fabia U. Battistuzzi, and Vyllinniskii Cameron. "Astrobiology Influx to Astrobiology in Flux." Astrobiology 6, no. 3 (June 2006): 397–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2006.6.397.

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Quinlan, Catherine L. "Bringing Astrobiology Down to Earth." American Biology Teacher 77, no. 8 (October 1, 2015): 567–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2015.77.8.2.

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Astrobiology seeks to understand life in the universe through various disciplines and approaches. Astrobiology not only provides crosscutting content, but its study supports the three dimensions of learning promoted by the Next Generation Science Standards. While astrobiology research has been progressive and has accomplished great feats for science and society, astrobiology education in schools and colleges has lagged behind astrobiology research. Astrobiology can be used in the classroom as an engaging context for the Socratic method or in long- or short-term projects to encourage higher-order thinking.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Astrobiology"

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Geller, Harold. "Astrobiology the integrated science curriculum." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/991461398/04.

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Coelho, Luciene da Silva. "Formação de moléculas orgânicas em ambientes interestelares." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/14/14131/tde-22112012-211332/.

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Este trabalho apresenta o estudo de algumas moléculas do meio interestelar úteis para o levantamento do conteúdo de matéria orgânica do universo e para as condições pré-bióticas na Terra e em outros ambientes no universo. Utilizamos como objeto-teste a Nebulosa Cabeça de Cavalo, devido à sua geometria simples, à sua distância moderada até nós, ao seu campo de radiação ultravioleta bem conhecido resultante da iluminação por uma estrela próxima, $\\sigma$ Orionis, e por ter sido extensivamente estudada por diversos trabalhos. Desse modo, podemos investigar com segurança diversos processos físicos e químicos no meio interestelar. O principal instrumento utilizado neste trabalho foi o código PDR Meudon devido ao fato de que é amplamente utilizado por ser um dos programas de análise de dados de projetos recentes de astronomia, como o projeto Herschel, e por ser público. O código pode ser utilizado para modelizar com confiabilidade a Nebulosa Cabeça de Cavalo, visto que ela mesma é uma PDR (região de fotodissociação) prototípica. Atualizamos o setor de química do código para testar diversos cenários de formação de moléculas. Consideramos o impacto nas abundâncias derivadas das moléculas de várias suposições em relação ao estado do gás (modelos isocórico, isotérmico e isobárico), decidindo em favor de um modelo isobárico. Verificou-se o papel dos raios cósmicos e de vários conjuntos de dados das reações químicas. Obtivemos as abundâncias de várias moléculas, incluindo algumas de potencial importância pré-biótica: CN e seus íons, HCN, HNC, nitrilas e seus íons, hidretos de nitrogênio, benzeno. Investigamos o papel dos ânions e dos PAHs. Finalmente, exploramos canais de produção para heterocíclicos nitrogenados com relevância em astrobiologia: pirrol e piridina. As presentes simulações apresentaram como a exploração de uma pequena gama de possíveis canais de produção de heterocíclicos já resultou em abundâncias significativas para ao menos uma espécie de heterocíclicos nitrogenados, a piridina. Dessa forma, excursões sistemáticas pelos diversos canais de produção deverão revelar mais espécies para serem alvos de buscas.
This work presents the study of some molecules of the interstellar medium that are useful for the bookkeeping of the molecular content of the universe and for prebiotic conditions on Earth and in other environments in the universe. The Horsehead Nebula was chosen as test object, due to its simple geometry, its moderate distance to us, its well-known ultraviolet radiation field resulting from the star $\\sigma$ Orionis, and due the fact that it has been extensively studied in several works. In this way, we can safely investigate several physical and chemical processes on the interstellar medium. The main tool used in the present work was the Meudon PDR code due the fact that it is widely used as one of the legacy data analysis programs of current astronomy projects, e.g. the Herschel project, and it is public. The code can reliably model the Horsehead Nebula, since this nebula is a prototypic PDR (photodissociation region). We updated the chemical sector of the code in order to test several scenarios for molecule production. We considered the impact on the derived molecule abundances of several assumptions relative to the gas state (isochoric, isothermal and isobaric models), and the isobaric model was found to be the most plausible. We checked the role of cosmic rays and several datasets of chemical reactions. We derived the abundances of several molecules, including some of potential prebiotic importance: CN and their ions, HCN, HNC, nitriles and their ions, nitrogen hydrides, and benzene. We investigated the role of anions and PAHs. Finally, we explored production channels for astrobiologically relevant nitrogenated heterocycles: pyrrole and pyridine. This presents simulations show us how the exploration of a small quantities of possibles path of prodution of heterocycles resulted already in significants abundances at least one n-heterocycle specie, the pyridine. Thereby, systemact tours for the many productions paths should show more species to be targe of searches.
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Szenay, Brian Craig. "Modeling Potential Chemical Environments: Implications for Astrobiology." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4847.

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Modeling chemical environments is an important step to understanding the diversity of prebiotic systems that may have formed on the early earth or potentially can occur on other worlds. By using the modern Earth as a test case, these models predict scenarios with systems more conducive to the formation of the organic molecules that are important to life. Here we use the equilibrium thermodynamic modeling program HSC Chem to investigate prebiotic environments. This program uses the raw material that the user inputs into the system in order to calculate the change in amounts of chemical species forming as a function of temperature and pressure using equilibrium (batch reactor) chemistry. Our results show that that ferrous ion (Fe2+), which may be important in the early formation of organic molecules on Earth, is most abundant in the aqueous phase where the atmosphere contains carbon dioxide as a major constituent. A pure methane atmosphere exhibits the lowest concentrations of this ion, and mixtures tend to end up in between the two extremes. Additionally, we have determined the pH of early oceans, which has implications for biomineralization, chemical reactions, and mineral chemistry. We see that the CO2 atmosphere, and to some extent, the mixtures and CH4 atmospheres, exhibit near neutral pHs. These results allow prediction of processes that might have taken place and could have impacted the development of life on the early earth.
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Henry, Olivier Yves Frederic. "Robust molecular sensor array for astrobiology applications." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426073.

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Lafuente, Valverde Barbara, and Valverde Barbara Lafuente. "Architecture of Databases for Mineralogy and Astrobiology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621774.

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This dissertation is focused on the design of the Open Data Repository's Data Publisher (ODR), a web-based central repository for scientific data, primarily focused on mineralogical properties, but also applicable to other data types, including for instance, morphological, textural and contextual images, chemical, biochemical, isotopic, and sequencing information. Using simple web-based tools, the goal of ODR is to lower the cost and training barrier so that any researcher can easily publish their data, ensure that it is archived for posterity, and comply with the mandates for data sharing. There are only a few databases in the mineralogical community, including RRUFF (http://rruff.info) for professionals, and mindat.org (http://www.mindat.org) for amateurs. These databases contain certain specific mineral information, but none, however, provide the ability to include, in the same platform, any of the many datatypes that characterize the properties of minerals. The ODR framework provides the flexibility required to include unforeseen data without the need for additional software programming. Once ODR is completed, the RRUFF database will be migrated into ODR and populated with additional data using other analytical techniques, such as Mössbauer data from Dr. Richard Morris and NVIR data from Dr. Ralf Milliken. The current ODR pilot studies are also described here, including 1) a database of the XRD analysis performed by the CheMin instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, 2) the NASA-AMES Astrobiology Habitable Environments Database (AHED), which aims to provide a central, high quality, long-term data repository for relevant astrobiology information, 3) the University of Arizona Mineral Museum (UAMM), with over 21,000 records of minerals and fossils from the museum collection, and 4) the Mineral Evolution Database (MED), that uses the ages of mineral species and their localities to correlate the diversification of mineral species through time with Earth's physical, chemical and biological processes. A good database design requires understanding the fundamentals of its content, so part of this thesis is also focused on developing my skills in mineral analysis and characterization, through the study of the crystal-chemistry of diverse minerals using X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and microprobe analysis, as principal techniques.
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Fornaro, Teresa. "Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Systems Relevant in Astrobiology." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86210.

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In the Astrobiology context, the study of the physico-chemical interactions involving “building blocks of life” in plausible prebiotic and space-like conditions is fundamental to shed light on the processes that led to emergence of life on Earth as well as to molecular chemical evolution in space. In this PhD Thesis, such issues have been addressed both experimentally and computationally by employing vibrational spectroscopy, which has shown to be an effective tool to investigate the variety of intermolecular interactions that play a key role in self-assembling mechanisms of nucleic acid components and their binding to mineral surfaces. In particular, in order to dissect the contributions of the different interactions to the overall spectroscopic signals and shed light on the intricate experimental data, feasible computational protocols have been developed for the characterization of the spectroscopic properties of such complex systems. This study has been carried out through a multi-step strategy, starting the investigation from the spectroscopic properties of the isolated nucleobases, then studying the perturbation induced by the interaction with another molecule (molecular dimers), towards condensed phases like the molecular solid, up to the case of nucleic acid components adsorbed on minerals.
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Oliver, Carol Ann Biotechnology &amp Biomolecular Sciences Faculty of Science UNSW. "Communicating astrobiology in public: A study of scientific literacy." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42878.

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The majority of adults in the US and in Europe appear to be scientifically illiterate. This has not changed in more than half a century. It is unknown whether the Australian public is also scientifically illiterate because no similar testing is done here. Public scientific illiteracy remains in spite of improvements in science education, innovative approaches to public outreach, the encouraging of science communication via the mass media, and the advent of the Internet. Why is it that there has been so little change? Is school science education inadequate? Does something happen between leaving high school education and becoming an adult? Does Australia suffer from the same apparent malady? The pilot study at the heart of this thesis tests a total of 692 Year Ten (16-year-old) Australian students across ten high schools and a first year university class in 2005 and 2006, using measures applied to adults. Twenty-six percent of those tested participated in a related scientific literacy project utilising in-person visits to Macquarie University in both years. A small group of the students (64) tested in 2005 were considered the best science students in seven of the ten high schools. Results indicate that no more than 20% of even the best high school science students - on the point of being able to end their formal science education - are scientifically literate if measured by adult standards. Another pilot test among 150 first year university students supports that indication. This compares to a scientific literacy rate of 28% for the US public. This thesis finds that the scientific literacy enterprise ?? in all its forms ?? fails scrutiny. Either we believe our best science students are leaving high school scientifically illiterate or there is something fundamentally wrong in our perceptions of public scientific illiteracy. This pilot study ?? probably the first of its kind ?? indicates we cannot rely on our current perceptions of a scientifically illiterate public. It demonstrates that a paradigm shift in our thinking is required about what scientific literacy is and in our expectations of a scientifically literate adult public. In the worst case scenario, governments are pouring millions of dollars into science education and public outreach with little or no basis for understanding whether either is effective. That is illogical, even irresponsible. It also impacts on the way astrobiology ?? or any science ?? is communicated in public.
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Neitzel, Clifford Luciano Vinícius. "Aplicação da astronomia ao ensino de física com ênfase em astrobiologia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/12437.

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Neste trabalho, criticamos a forma como alguns temas básicos da Física são expostos e são estudados ao longo do Ensino Médio. O assunto escolhido por nós foi a “Aplicação da Astronomia ao Ensino de Física com ênfase em Astrobiologia”. Este projeto tem como objetivo introduzir e estimular os alunos do 2º ano do Ensino Médio ao campo da Astronomia, utilizando-se de conhecimentos pré-adquiridos de Física da primeira série do Ensino Médio, e com ênfase em um tema bastante atual e em forte desenvolvimento, a Astrobiologia. O desenvolvimento do projeto proporcionou então o aprendizado de novos conceitos e áreas de Física, ainda não formalmente estudados. O projeto aborda desde um histórico da Astronomia, passando por um panorama geral da Astronomia contemporânea, até a sua relação com outras disciplinas, como Física, Química e Biologia, usando como eixo a Astrobiologia. Nestes contextos foram introduzidos conceitos básicos de diferentes áreas da Física, incluindo aquelas que são abordadas no decorrer dos dois últimos anos do Ensino Médio. Este projeto resultou na produção de um CD, onde está contido todo o material aplicado nas aulas com o formato “PowerPoint”. O CD inclui também explicações detalhadas para o professor sobre cada aula, sendo que estas notas de aula estão no formato de texto mais usual, “Microsoft Word”. Dessa forma, professores terão em mãos um roteiro de fácil acesso para que possam se orientar em suas aulas. Obtivemos resultados bastante significativos após a aplicação deste projeto. Tais resultados são demonstrados nas tabelas e gráficos apresentados no decorrer desta dissertação, e foram considerados satisfatórios por nós, demonstrando com clareza que a necessidade de atualizarmos e inovarmos o conhecimento em Física torna-se um fato notório. Com este trabalho, esperamos poder contribuir estimulando a criatividade e a curiosidade dos alunos para um tema merecedor de toda a nossa atenção.
In this work, we criticize the way some basic themes of Physics are presented and studied during High School. The subject chosen was “Use of Astronomy in the Physics Teaching with emphasis in Astrobiology”. This project´s goal is to introduce and stimulate junior High School students to the Astronomy field, making use pre-acquired knowledge from the previous series, and with emphasis in a current theme undergoing rapid growth: Astrobiology. The project development was meant to lead to learning of new concepts and areas of Physics, not studied previously. The project has started with the History of Astronomy, passed through a broad view of contemporary Astronomy, stressing its relation with other disciplines, such as Physical and Chemical sciences and Biology and always using Astrobiology as a defining axis. In these contexts basic concepts of different areas of Physics are introduced, including those that are taught during the two last years of High School. This project has led to the production of a CD, which contains the multimedia material applied in the classroom, in “PowerPoint” format. The CD includes full explanations about each class to interested teachers; these lecture notes are in the more usual “Microsoft Word” format. Thus, teachers will have in hands an easy access script to guide themselves through their lectures. The results we obtained with the application of this project are significant. They are shown as tables and graphs throughout the text. The very satisfactory outcome of the project clearly shows the need for an updated and innovative way of learning and teaching Physics. We hope this work may have stimulated the curiosity and creativity of students towards learning such an important theme.
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Bounama, Christine. "Thermische Evolution und Habitabilität erdähnlicher Exoplaneten." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1648/.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Methoden der Erdsystemanalyse auf die Untersuchung der Habitabilität terrestrischer Exoplaneten angewandt. Mit Hilfe eines parametrisierten Konvektionsmodells für die Erde wird die thermische Evolution von terrestrischen Planeten berechnet. Bei zunehmender Leuchtkraft des Zentralsterns wird über den globalen Karbonat-Silikat-Kreislauf das planetare Klima stabilisiert. Für eine photosynthetisch-aktive Biosphäre, die in einem bestimmten Temperaturbereich bei hinreichender CO2-Konzentration existieren kann, wird eine Überlebenspanne abgeschätzt. Der Abstandsbereich um einen Stern, in dem eine solche Biosphäre produktiv ist, wird als photosynthetisch-aktive habitable Zone (pHZ) definiert und berechnet. Der Zeitpunkt, zu dem die pHZ in einem extrasolaren Planetensystem endgültig verschwindet, ist die maximale Lebenspanne der Biosphäre. Für Supererden, massereiche terrestrische Planeten, ist sie umso länger, je massereicher der Planet ist und umso kürzer, je mehr er mit Kontinenten bedeckt ist. Für Supererden, die keine ausgeprägten Wasser- oder Landwelten sind, skaliert die maximale Lebenspanne mit der Planetenmasse mit einem Exponenten von 0,14. Um K- und M-Sterne ist die Überlebensspanne einer Biosphäre auf einem Planeten immer durch die maximale Lebensspanne bestimmt und nicht durch das Ende der Hauptreihenentwicklung des Zentralsterns limitiert. Das pHZ-Konzept wird auf das extrasolare Planetensystem Gliese 581 angewandt. Danach könnte die 8-Erdmassen-Supererde Gliese 581d habitabel sein. Basierend auf dem vorgestellten pHZ-Konzept wird erstmals die von Ward und Brownlee 1999 aufgestellte Rare-Earth-Hypothese für die Milchstraße quantifiziert. Diese Hypothese besagt, dass komplexes Leben im Universum vermutlich sehr selten ist, wohingegen primitives Leben weit verbreitet sein könnte. Unterschiedliche Temperatur- und CO2-Toleranzen sowie ein unterschiedlicher Einfluss auf die Verwitterung für komplexe und primitive Lebensformen führt zu unterschiedlichen Grenzen der pHZ und zu einer unterschiedlichen Abschätzung für die Anzahl der Planeten, die mit den entsprechenden Lebensformen besiedelt sein könnten. Dabei ergibt sich, dass komplex besiedelte Planeten heute etwa 100-mal seltener sein müssten als primitiv besiedelte.
In this thesis methods of Earth system analysis are applied to the investigation of the habitability of terrestrial exoplanets. With the help of parameterized convection models for the Earth the thermal evolution of terrestrial planets is calculated. Under increasing central star luminosity the global carbonate-silicate cycle stabilizes the planetary climate. The life span of a photosynthetic-active biosphere existing in a certain temperature interval under adequate CO2 concentration is estimated. The range of orbital distances within which such a biosphere is productive is defined as the photosynthetic-active habitable zone (pHZ) and is calculated. The maximum life span of the biosphere is the point in time when the pHZ of an extrasolar planetary system finally disappears. For super-Earths, i.e. massive terrestrial planets, it is as longer as more massive the planet is and as shorter as more the planet is covered with continents. For super-Earths, which are not pronounced land or water worlds, the maximum life span scales with the planetary mass with an exponent of 0.14. The life span of the biosphere on a planet around K- or M-stars is always determined by the maximum life span and not limited by the end of the main-sequence evolution of the central star. The pHZ approach is applied to the extrasolar planetary system Gliese 581. Accordingly the super-Earth of 8 Earth masses Gliese 581d could be habitable. Based on the presented pHZ concept the Rare Earth Hypothesis established by Ward and Brownlee 1999 is quantified for the Milky Way. This hypothesis claims that complex life may be very rare in the Universe while primitive life is likely common and widespread. Different temperature and CO2 tolerances as well as a different influence on weathering of complex and primitive life forms result different boundaries of the pHZ and a different estimate of the number of planets potentially harboring these different life forms. It arises that planets with complex life might be 100 times rarer than primitive life bearing planets.
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Berry, Bonnie. "GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF BACTERIA IN SIMULATED MARTIAN CONDITIONS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3190.

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Escherichia coli and Serratia liquefaciens, two common microbial spacecraft contaminants known to replicate under low atmospheric pressures of 25 mb, were tested for growth and survival in simulated martian conditions. Stressors of high salinity, low temperature, and low pressure were screened alone and in combination to determine how they might affect microbial activity. Growth and survival of E. coli and S. liquefaciens under low temperatures (30, 20, 10, or 5 °C) with increasing concentrations (0, 5, 10, or 20 %) of three salts believed to be present on the surface of Mars (MgCl2, MgSO4, NaCl) were monitored over 7 d. Results indicated higher growth rates for E. coli and S. liquefaciens at 30 and 20 °C and in solutions without salt or in 5 % concentrations. No increase in cell density occurred under the highest salt concentrations at any temperatures tested; however, survival rates were high, especially at 10 and 5 °C. Growth rates of E. coli and S. liquefaciens with and without salts at 1013, 100, or 25 mb of total atmospheric pressure were robust under all pressures. In a final experiment, E. coli was maintained in Mars-simulant soils in a Mars Simulation Chamber. Temperatures within the chamber were changed diurnally from -50 °C to 20 °C; UV light was present during daytime operation (8 hrs), and pressure was held at a constant 7.1 mb in a Mars atmosphere for 7 d. Results from the full-scale Mars simulation indicated that E. coli failed to increase its populations under simulated Mars conditions, but was not killed off by the low pressure, low temperature, or high salinity conditions. Escherichia coli, and potentially other bacteria from Earth, may be able to survive on Mars. Surviving bacteria may interfere with scientific studies or, if future conditions become more favorable for microbial growth, modify the martian atmosphere and biogeochemistry.
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Books on the topic "Astrobiology"

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Yamagishi, Akihiko, Takeshi Kakegawa, and Tomohiro Usui, eds. Astrobiology. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3639-3.

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Horneck, Gerda, and Christa Baumstark-Khan, eds. Astrobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59381-9.

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Chela-Flores, Julián, Guillermo A. Lemarchand, and John Oró, eds. Astrobiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4313-4.

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Grady, M. M. Astrobiology. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

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Astrobiology. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 2008.

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Gargaud, Muriel, William M. Irvine, Ricardo Amils, Henderson James Cleaves, Daniele Pinti, José Cernicharo Quintanilla, and Michel Viso, eds. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4.

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Cavalazzi, Barbara, and Frances Westall, eds. Biosignatures for Astrobiology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96175-0.

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Gargaud, Muriel, Hervé Martin, and Philippe Claeys, eds. Lectures in Astrobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33693-8.

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Impey, Chris, Jonathan Lunine, and Jose Funes, eds. Frontiers of Astrobiology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511902574.

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Kolb, Vera M., ed. Handbook of Astrobiology. Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2019]: CRC Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b22230.

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Book chapters on the topic "Astrobiology"

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Irvine, William M. "Astrobiology." In Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, 190–91. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_120.

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Kundt, Wolfgang. "Astrobiology." In Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, 139–57. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04347-9_14.

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Karttunen, Hannu, Pekka Kröger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, and Karl Johan Donner. "Astrobiology." In Fundamental Astronomy, 445–57. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53045-0_21.

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Farmer, Jack D. "Astrobiology." In Encyclopedia of Geobiology, 73–79. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9212-1_14.

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Grupen, Claus. "Astrobiology." In Astroparticle Physics, 435–48. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27339-2_14.

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Kolb, Vera M. "Astrobiology." In Handbook of Astrobiology, 3–13. Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2019]: CRC Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b22230-1.

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Irvine, William M. "Astrobiology." In Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, 1–2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_120-6.

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Grupen, Claus. "Astrobiology." In essentials, 45–46. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32547-3_8.

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Irvine, William M. "Astrobiology." In Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, 1–2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_120-5.

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Jagadeesh, Madhu Kashyap, and Usha Shekhar. "Astrobiology." In Extreme Habitable Environments, 101–20. New York: CRC Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429289590-11.

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Conference papers on the topic "Astrobiology"

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Hoover, Richard B., Elena V. Pikuta, Nalin C. Wickramasinghe, Max K. Wallis, and Robert B. Sheldon. "Astrobiology of comets." In Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, edited by Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, and Alexei Y. Rozanov. SPIE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.566496.

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Hubbard, G. Scott, and Lisa Chu-Thielbar. "Astrobiology: The First Decade." In 56th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the International Institute of Space Law. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.iac-05-a3.2.b.08.

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Sellar, R. Glenn, Jack D. Farmer, Andrew Kieta, and Julie Huang. "Multispectral microimager for astrobiology." In SPIE Optics + Photonics, edited by Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, and Alexei Y. Rozanov. SPIE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.682272.

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Fridlund, C. V. M. "Astrobiology at different wavelengths." In Extremely Large Telescopes: Which Wavelengths? Retirement Symposium for Arne Ardeberg, edited by Torben E. Andersen. SPIE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.801265.

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Bergin, Edwin A. "Astrobiology: An astronomer's perspective." In XVII SPECIAL COURSES AT THE NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF RIO DE JANEIRO (CCE). AIP Publishing LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4904143.

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Sandford, Scott, Thomas P. Greene, Louis Allamandola, Roger Arno, Jesse D. Bregman, Sylvia Cox, Paul K. Davis, et al. "Explorer-class astrobiology mission." In Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, edited by James B. Breckinridge and Peter Jakobsen. SPIE, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.393974.

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Yim, Mark, Babak Shirmohammadi, and David Benelli. "Amphibious modular robotic astrobiology." In Defense and Security Symposium, edited by Grant R. Gerhart, Douglas W. Gage, and Charles M. Shoemaker. SPIE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.719944.

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Rozanov, Alexei Y., Elena A. Zhegallo, Galina T. Ushatinskaya, Yulia V. Shuvalova, and Richard B. Hoover. "Bacterial paleontology for astrobiology." In International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, edited by Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, Roland R. Paepe, and Alexei Y. Rozanov. SPIE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.454765.

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Abyzov, S. S., L. M. Gerasimenko, R. B. Hoover, I. N. Mitskevich, A. L. Mulyukin, M. N. Poglazova, and A. Y. Rozanov. "Microbiological methodology in astrobiology." In Optics & Photonics 2005, edited by Richard B. Hoover, Gilbert V. Levin, Alexei Y. Rozanov, and G. Randall Gladstone. SPIE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.618565.

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Oliver, Carol. "Communicating Astrobiology - A New Approach." In 54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the International Institute of Space Law. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.iac-03-iaa.9.2.04.

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Reports on the topic "Astrobiology"

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Research, Gratis. Current Research in Astrobiology. Gratis Research, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47496/gr.blog.09.

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Borg, L., and J. Lunine. National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, NASA Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Chapter 3. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1824768.

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