A More Comprehensive Habitable Zone for Finding Life on Other Planets
The habitable zone (HZ) is the circular region around a star(s) where standing bodies of water could exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Space missions employ the HZ to select promising targets for follow-up habitability assessment. The classical HZ definition assumes that the most important gre...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Geosciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/8/280 |