Geoforming Mars
How could nature have made Mars more like Earth?
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Beschreibung
This book offers an exercise in theoretical planetology, presenting five different scenarios to assess the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars to assess planetary terraforming potential and to give insight into the ongoing search for habitable exoplanets. Four of the scenarios involve Martian satellite capture models, in which gravitational capture via tidal deformation and energy dissipation processes are measured to predict a pathway of biological evolution, while the fifth scenario analyzes the possible model that led to the Mars that we have today (i.e. with no life forms). In ten chapters, readers will learn how a Mars-like terrestrial planet can be transformed into a habitable planet, and what conditions must be assessed when searching for exoplanets in a star-centered orbit to support life. The book is intended for planetologists, and general enthusiasts of planetary evolution and our solar system.
This book offers an exercise in theoretical planetology, presenting five different scenarios to assess the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars to assess planetary terraforming potential and to give insight into the ongoing search for habitable exoplanets. Four of the scenarios involve Martian satellite capture models, in which gravitational capture via tidal deformation and energy dissipation processes are measured to predict a pathway of biological evolution, while the fifth scenario analyzes the possible model that led to the Mars that we have today (i.e. with no life forms). In ten chapters, readers will learn how a Mars-like terrestrial planet can be transformed into a habitable planet, and what conditions must be assessed when searching for exoplanets in a star-centered orbit to support life. The book is intended for planetologists, and general enthusiasts of planetary evolution and our solar system.
Presents theoretical scenarios for the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars Offers an exercise in theoretical planetology to help understand the origin of life in our solar system Geared towards scientists and general enthusiasts of planetary evolution and habitable planets
Autor*in
Robert Malcuit
Themen in »Geoforming Mars«
Terraforming Mars by satellite Habitable Exoplanets Early solar system Gravitational capture model Theoretical planetology Planetary engineering of Mars Making Mars habitable Making Mars Earth-like Modeling habitability on Mars Terrestrial planets Biological evolution on Mars Planetary evolution meteorology