Lecture 23 outline and notes

Life on Earth: Prokaryortes, eukaryotes, and evolution

1) Evolution

2) Mass extinctions

3) Chicxulub

4) Summary

Detection of life

5) What are we searching for?

6) Where are we searching?

7) The Viking missions to Mars

8) Europa

9) Extrasolar planets

10) Kepler and TPF

11) SETI (a teaser)


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