Astrobiology and SETI
“Are we alone?” “Where did we come from?” These are the defining questions of the new field of Astrobiology, and they are also the questions that have tantalized humanity throughout recorded history. The SKA will afford an excellent opportunity to answer these old questions and thereby calibrate our...
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| Published in: | New astronomy reviews Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 1543 - 1549 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier B.V
01-12-2004
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | “Are we alone?” “Where did we come from?” These are the defining questions of the new field of Astrobiology, and they are also the questions that have tantalized humanity throughout recorded history. The SKA will afford an excellent opportunity to answer these old questions and thereby calibrate our place in the cosmos. With the SKA we may discover another technological species and chart the pathways by which complex organic molecules assembled in interstellar space were incorporated into, or reassembled within, nascent planetary systems and the role these molecules play in creating habitable worlds. |
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| ISSN: | 1387-6473 1872-9630 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.newar.2004.09.019 |