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All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life
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An astronomer explores the science of astrobiology in this “serious but accessible examination of the prospects for finding life elsewhere in the universe” (Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture).
Describing the most recent discoveries made with space exploration technology, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, astronomer Jon Willis asks readers to consider five possible scenarios for finding extraterrestrial life. He reviews what we know and don’t know about the life-sustaining potential of Mars’s subsoil ice and the water-ice moons Europa and Enceladus. He also looks at Saturn’s moon Titan through the lens of our own planet’s ancient past. In this concise yet far-reaching volume, Willis even looks beyond our solar system, investigating the top candidates for a “second Earth” in a myriad of exoplanets.
 
“Through humorous, concise, accessible writing, Willis eloquently presents the growing—though still circumstantial—evidence that we are not alone."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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        In this energizing book, Willis, associate professor of astronomy at British Columbia's University of Victoria, charts how the 1977 "discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth has transformed our view of the habitability of the outer solar system" and bolstered the search for life elsewhere. Microbes dependent on the energy of otherworldly, belching hydrothermal vents on the deep ocean floor were hailed as the first evidence that life may exist in extremes of space. Since then, discoveries of potential parallel life forms—and parallel ecosystems—have snowballed. The liquid methane cycle of Saturn's moon Titan "mirrors the hydrological cycle on Earth," Willis writes, and resembles the conditions on "early Earth before life arose." An ocean on Jovian moon Europa resembles Antarctica's frozen Lake Vostok. Similarly, warm salty oceans on Jovian and Saturnian moons are not altogether different "from the warm salty water that constitutes the bulk of our cells and that we retain as a chemical memory of our origins." The Kepler space observatory, designed to detect Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars, has discovered more than 3,500 "candidate planets" by measuring the dimming light of suns as planets pass; one of those planets, Willis notes, could be sufficiently like ours to harbor life. Through humorous, concise, accessible writing, Willis eloquently presents the growing—though still circumstantial—evidence that we are not alone.

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