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Microstructure Controls Sublimation Timescales of Exposed Salt-Rich Ices on Icy Worlds

by Keith Cowing

Salt-rich water ice at the surfaces of icy worlds, for example, Europa, Enceladus, and Ceres, is of particular interest for Solar System exploration as it can represent a record of […]

Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Intelligence & Language, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Panspermia, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Status Report

Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations

by Keith Cowing

This chapter attempts to encompass and tackle a large problem in Astrovirology and Astrobiology. There is a huge anthropomorphic prejudice that although life is unlikely, the just-right Goldilocks terrestrial conditions […]

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