Planetary Atmosphere Evolution: Do Other Habitable Planets Exist and Can We Detect Them?

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-24

  Kasting, James F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; OZONE; SILICATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; OXYGEN; OZONE; SILICATES; VENUS; WATER;

EID: 0030308406     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5808-4_1     Document Type: Article

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