宇宙的秘密生命：天体生物学家寻找生命的起源和前沿 The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologists Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life

基本信息

Format:Paperback 320 pages

Publisher:Simon & Schuster UK

Imprint:Simon & Schuster UK

ISBN:9781398531291

Published:15 Aug 2024

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在过去的几十年里，太空探索彻底改变了我们对宇宙中生命位置的理解。我们现在知道，太阳系内有许多宜居环境。

然而，一个深刻的问题仍然存在：我们在宇宙中是孤独的吗？

Nathalie A. Cabrol 是知名天体生物学家，也是 SETI 研究所卡尔·萨根中心主任，她将我们带到了寻找生命的前沿。这本书的冒险之旅始于寻找地球上生命的起源，以了解生命在其他地方存在的条件。

我们的月球扮演了什么角色？火星或其他世界的生命是否可能为地球播下了生命的种子？

Cabrol 继续这场令人眼花缭乱的星际之旅，阐明了我们附近有可能存在生命的地方：金星、火星、木星和土星的冰卫星以及冥王星。我们寻找太阳系以外的生命，关注夜空中近期的革命：我们意识到银河系中有数百万颗系外行星可以维持生命。

《宇宙的秘密生活》既是一本指南，也是一次令人惊叹的探索，探索这对我们今天地球上的人类意味着什么。这是一次令人振奋的旅程，非常适合任何曾经仰望星空并想知道那里可能有什么的人。

Over the last few decades, space exploration has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the cosmos. We now know that there are many habitable environments within our solar system.

Yet a profound question remains: are we alone in the universe?

Nathalie A. Cabrol, leading astrobiologist and director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, takes us to the frontiers of the search for life. This book's odyssey begins by searching for how life began on Earth in order to understand what's necessary for life to exist elsewhere.

What role did our moon play? And could life on Mars, or another world, have seeded life on Earth?

Cabrol continues this dazzling interplanetary tour, illuminating the likeliest places for life in our neighbourhood: Venus, Mars, the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and Pluto. Finally, we seek life beyond our solar system, looking at the recent revolution in the night sky: the realisation that there are millions of exoplanets within our galaxy that could support life.

The Secret Life of the Universeis both a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the latest discoveries and an awe-inspiring exploration of what this means for us as humans on Earth today. It's an exhilarating journey, perfect for anyone who has ever looked up at the stars and wondered what might be out there.

作者简介

娜塔莉·A·卡布罗尔 (Nathalie A. Cabrol，1963 年 8 月 30 日出生) 是一位法裔美国天体生物学家，专攻行星科学。卡布罗尔研究火星上的古老湖泊，并作为美国宇航局天体生物学研究所 (NAI) 资助的“高湖项目”研究员，在智利中部安第斯山脉进行高海拔科学考察。在那里，她和她的团队记录了生命对极端环境的适应、快速气候变化对湖泊生态系统和栖息地的影响、其地理生物学特征以及与行星探索的相关性。

她是 SETI 研究所 NAI 团队的研究员，该团队于 2014 年 10 月被选中开发新的生物特征检测和探索策略，以支持当时即将到来的 2020 年火星任务。她于 2015 年 8 月被任命为 SETI 研究所卡尔萨根宇宙生命研究中心主任。

Nathalie A. Cabrol (born August 30, 1963) is a French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the "High Lakes Project" funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). There, with her team, she documents life's adaptation to extreme environments, the effect of rapid climate change on lake ecosystems and habitats, its geobiological signatures, and relevance to planetary exploration.

She is the principal investigator of the SETI Institute NAI team, which was selected in October 2014 to develop new biosignature detection and exploration strategies in support of the then-upcoming Mars 2020 mission. She was appointed in August 2015 to head the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.