Astrobiology of Jupiter's icy moons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5555, Issue , 2004, Pages 78-92

  Lipps, Jere H ^a   Delory, Gregory ^a,b   Pitman, Joe ^c   Rieboldt, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Callisto; Europa; Ganymede; Ice organisms; Jupiter's icy moons; Life; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ASTROBIOLOGY; CALLISTO; EUROPA; GANYMEDE; ICE ORGANISMS; JUPITER'S ICY MOONS; LIFE;

EARTH (PLANET); ENERGY RESOURCES; ICE; MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOON; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; TECTONICS; WATER;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 14944352733     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.560356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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