An Approach To The Detection Of Microbe Life In Planetary Environments Through Charge-Coupled Devices

M. D. Nussinov et al. (1992), JBIS, 45, pp.13-14

Refcode: 1992.45.13

Abstract:

In the search for extraterrestrial life [1], the presence of microorganisms both at high altitudes in the atmosphere and in very deep layers of the Earth [2,3], their stability under very unfavourable physicochemical conditions and their presence on the Earth as the sole form of life during its first billion years of existence, together with the reasonable supposition that extraterrestrial life should be based on liquid water and carbon [4] and should follow evolutionary pathways substantially similar to those on the Earth, are all facts that induce to follow strategies mainly attempting to detect the presence of micro-organisms on other planetary bodies.