The search for life on faraway moons.

• Autores: Lee Billings
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 310, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 38-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the search for exoplanet moons, or exomoons, that may provide conditions suitable for life, focusing on the difficulty to detect such satellites with existing data and technology as of January 2014. Topics include the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project of astronomer David Kipping, a 1997 study by Darren Williams, Jim Kasting, and Richard Wade of Pennsylvania State University on the feasibility of Earth-like environments on exomoons, and moon formation.