The search for life on Mars [videorecording].
- Author:
- Jakosky, Bruce M.
- Published:
- [University Park, Pa.] : [Eberly College of Science, Penn State University], [2000]
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- Additional Creators:
- Eberly College of Science
- Series:
- Summary:
- Discusses some changes in scientific knowledge that have occurred since twenty years ago, when most scientists believed Earth was the only planet in our solar system where life could exist. Since then, major revolutions in our understanding of life on Earth have altered that notion completely, including the discovery of a very rapid origin of life, the ability of life to exist in environments previously thought too extreme, and genetic information on the biological nature of the earliest life. He also discusses the philosophical implications of searching for extraterrestrial life, what it would mean to find it, and what it would mean not to find it.
- Subject(s):
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Lecturer: Bruce Jakosky.
- Data/Place of Event:
- Recorded Feb. 12, 2000 at Penn State University in University Park, Pa.
- Technical Details:
- VHS.
- Terms of Use and Reproduction:
- PENN STATE USE ONLY.
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