 |
 |
Read
more than 4,000 books online FREE! More than 1900 PDFs now available
for sale |
|
|
|
 |
|
Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies:
Framework for Decision Making
|
|
Status: Available Now
Size: 116 pages, 8.5 x 11
Publication Year:1998
|
|
|
| Print |
List Price |
Your Price |
|
 |
PAPERBACK
ISBN-10: 0-309-06136-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-309-06136-0
|
$37.00 |
$33.30 |
Add to Cart |
| PDF |
|
|
|
|
|
Authors:
Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council
Authoring Organizations
Description:
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition to gather material over the next ...
Read More |
|
|
Full Text
Jump to this book's table of contents to begin reading online for free.
|
Web Search Builder
Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our
collection, or across the Web.
Reference
Finder
Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic.
|
|
Description
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition to gather material over the next decade from Mars, an asteroid, comets, the satellites of Jupiter, and the interplanetary dust. Some of these targets, most especially Jupiter's satellites Europa and Ganymede, now appear to have the potential for harboring living organisms.
This book considers the possibility that life may have originated or existed on a body from which a sample might be taken and the possibility that life still exists on the body either in active form or in a form that could be reactiviated. It also addresses the potential hazard to terrestrial ecosystems from extraterrestrial life if it exists in a returned sample. Released at the time of the Internationl Committee on Space Research General Assembly, the book has already established the basis for plans for small body sample retruns in the international space research community.
|
SIGN UP FOR...
 New Title Emails
Read about the newest releases and receive special offers.
NOTES
Copies of this publication are available free of charge from the Space Studies Board. Please contact the Board staff.
|
|
|
Items in cart [0]