Habitable Planets

update: 12 July 2004

Habitable planets are defined as having a temperature of about 300K to allow for liquid water.

You can here have an overview of the current and future searches for extrasolar life.

Search for Life outside the solar system

Other references ( from the bibliography):

  1. KASTING J., 1996, Origins of Life
  2. LEGER A., MARIOTTI J.M., MENESSON B., PUGET J.L., ROUAN D., SCHNEIDER J., 1996, Icarus, 123, 249
R. Mark Elowitz

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