The Earth as a Distant Planet: A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds

by Manuel Vázquez Abeledo, Pilar Montañés-Rodríguez, Enric Pallé

Book Overview

In The Earth as a Distant Planet , the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective is then applied to the search for other planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets. Since the discovery in 1992 of the first exoplanet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441916830
• ISBN13: 9781441916839
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"