Planetary biology and origins of life : proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission F (Meeting F3) of the COSPAR Twenty-ninth Plenary Meeting held in Washington, DC, U.S.A. 28 August - 5 September, 1992
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Planetary biology and origins of life : proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission F (Meeting F3) of the COSPAR Twenty-ninth Plenary Meeting held in Washington, DC, U.S.A. 28 August - 5 September, 1992
（Advances in space research, vol. 15,
Pergamon Press, 1994
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Since the development of space technologies and the exploration of the Moon and of our neighbouring planets by use of space vehicles, extraterrestrial biology has become established as a scientific topic. Comets, chondritic meteorites and interplanetary dust of our solar system bear witness to the existence of a dynamic organic chemistry from its earliest stages, during the condensation of the solar nebula. These proceedings, containing 56 papers, feature mainly extraterrestrial organic chemistry and the origins of life; life on Mars; planetary protection for Mars missions, and chemical evolution on Titan.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Extraterrestrial organic chemistry and the origins of life: circumstellar chemistry from microwave and mm-wave spectroscopy, J.H. Bieging
- organic molecules in the gas phase of dense interstellar clouds, W.M. Irvine
- possible evidence of hydrocarbons released by the nucleus of Halley's comet, G. Moreels et al
- comets and life in the universe, J. Oro et al
- origin of amino acids in the early solar system, J.F. Kerridge
- exobiology research on space station freedom, J.L. Huntington et al. Part 2 Life on Mars - past, present and future: exobiological exploration of Mars, H.P. Klein et al
- life on Mars? II physical restrictions, R.L. Mancinelli and A. Banin
- search for life on Mars - evaluation of techniques, D.E. Schwartz et al
- studies in the search for life on Mars, J. Koike et al
- a physical and chemical characterization of Martian permafrost as a possible habitat for viable microorganisms, V. Ostroumov. Part 3 Planetary protection for Mars missions: modern aspects of planetary protection and requirements to sterilization of space hardware, V.V. Demidov et al
- the experimental study of microbial contamination of the space hardware, V.B. Vasin and V.I. Trofimov
- planetary protection considerations for Marsnet and Mars sample return missions, C. Lindberg and G. Horneck. Part 4 Chemical evolution on Titan: Titan's atmosphere composition - certainties and speculations, D. Gautier
- surface-atmosphere interactions on Titan compared with those on the pre-biotic Earth, J.I. Lunine and C.P. McKay
- raindrops on Titan, R.D. Lorenz. Part 5 Origin and early evolution of biological - (A) energy transduction and membranes (B) information and catalysis: on the levels of enzymatic substrate specificity - implications for the early evolution of metabolic pathways, A. Lazcano et al
- role of trace metal ions in chemical evolution - the case of free-radical reactions, R. Navarro-Gonzalez and C. Ponnamperuma
- direct interaction between amino acids and nucleotides as a possible physicochemical basis for the origin of the genetic code, M.K. Hobish et al. Part 6 Carbon chemistry and isotopic fractionations in astrophysical environments: production and evolution of carbonaceous material by ion irradiation in space, G. Strazzulla et al
- carbonaceous matter in cometary dust and coma, F.R. Krueger
- isotopic ratios in planetary atmospheres, C. de Bergh.
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