Habitable planets: What are we learning from Kepler and ground-based searches?

Astrobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 363-366

  Kasting, James F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROBIOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCLIMATE;

EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANETS;

EID: 79957524594     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.3130     Document Type: Article

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