Terrestrial atmosphere, water and astrobiology

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010epjwc...9..241b&link_type=abstract

ERCA 9 - From the Global Mercury Cycle to the Discoveries of Kuiper Belt Objects, Edited by Claude Boutron; EPJ Web of Conferenc

Biology

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Primitive life, defined as a chemical system capable to transfer its molecular information via self-replication and also capable to evolve, originated about 4 billion years ago from the processing of organic molecules by liquid water. Terrestrial atmosphere played a key role in the process by allowing the permanent presence of liquid water and by participating in the production of carbon-based molecules. Water molecules exhibit specific properties mainly due to a dense network of hydrogen bonds. The carbon-based molecules were either home made in the atmosphere and/or in submarine hydrothermal systems or delivered by meteorites and micrometeorites. The search for possible places beyond the earth where the trilogy atmosphere/water/life could exist is the main objective of astrobiology. Within the Solar System, exploration missions are dedicated to Mars, Europa, Titan and the icy bodies. The discovery of several hundreds of extrasolar planets opens the quest to the whole Milky Way.

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