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Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon

Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the spectacular crack patterns,...

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Autor principal: Greenberg, Richard
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09676-6
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description Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice. Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileo's mission to Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the discovery of a f
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spelling cern-16063222021-04-21T22:24:02Zdoi:10.1007/978-0-387-09676-6http://cds.cern.ch/record/1606322engGreenberg, RichardUnmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moonAstrophysics and AstronomyJupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice. Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileo's mission to Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the discovery of a fSpringeroai:cds.cern.ch:16063222008
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Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title_full Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title_fullStr Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title_full_unstemmed Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title_short Unmasking Europa: the search for life on Jupiter's ocean moon
title_sort unmasking europa: the search for life on jupiter's ocean moon
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