Remote sensing of planetary properties and biosignatures on extrasolar terrestrial planets

Astrobiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-181

  Des Marais, David J ^a   Harwit, Martin O ^b   Jucks, Kenneth W ^c   Kasting, James F ^d   Lin, Douglas N C ^e   Lunine, Jonathan I ^f   Schneider, Jean ^g   Seager, Sara ^h   Traub, Wesley A ^c   Woolf, Neville J ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^h INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosignatures; Darwin; Extrasolar planets; Habitable planets; Spectroscopy; Terrestrial planet finder

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; OZONE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MICROCLIMATE; SPACE FLIGHT;

ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; OXYGEN; OZONE; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VENUS;

EID: 0036616972     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15311070260192246     Document Type: Article

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