Developing the Scientific Case for SETI (Reserve Reading )


The DRAKE EQUATION

One Form: Used in Class; Scientific American Frontiers

Second Form: SETI Institute  ;  SEDS  ;  Jordell Bank Observatory

SETI Pages:
The SETI Institute  ; The Planetary Society SETI Page ;SETI page at Space.comSEDS SETI page  ;  SETI at UC BerkeleyHarvard SETI page  ;  SETI Australia Center

SETI Articles:

 Why ET Hasn't Called (Sci Am 2002)
SETI Searches Today (Sky & Telescope 2002)
The Chance of Finding Aliens (Sky & Telescope)

Where Are They? (Sci Am 2000)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Sci Am 1997)  by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake
 
 


SETI SCIENCE ISSUES
 

Extrasolar Planets:

Extrasolar planet links: California & Carnegie Planet Search  ; JPL  ; The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia   ;Mass and Radii of known Extrasolar Planets

Some articles on Extrasolar planets:
Hunting Planets Beyond (Astronomy 2000)

Migrating Planets (Scientific American 1999)
 

Imagining Extrasolar Planets: Lynetts Cook's Space Art  Extrasolar Visions


Search for life on Mars:

Current Missions:   Mars Global Surveyor  (MGS images  showing water signatures);  2001 Mars Odyssey

Mars links:   SEDS  ;  Solarviews  ;  Mars Now  ;  FAS  ;  GSFC  ;  JPL  ;  JSC

Some Articles on Mars:
Searching for Life in Our Solar System (Scientific American 1998)
Sky and Telescope article...
Why Go to Mars? (Scientific American 2000)



Ocean on Europa?

Europa Links:  SolarviewsSEDS  ;  JPL  ; GSFC  ;  Galileo HomepageHabitable Worlds (ARC)

Some articles on Europa:
Habitable Moons (Sky and Telescope 1998)

Europa: Wet and Wild (Sci Am 1997)
The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and Its Moons (Sci Am 2000)


Life in Extreme Environments:

General links:  Astrobiology web  ;   Ocean Planet (Smithsonian)  ;  Ames Research CenterNASA Astrobiology Institute
Center for the Study of Life in the Universe  ;  NY Center for Studies on the Origins of Life  ;  Ad Astra Astrobiology 1999

Some articles:
Extremophiles (Sci Am. 1997)Bugs of Fire (MSFC)  ; Search for Extremophiles (Ad Astra)

 The Search for Extreme Life (Sci Am 2000)

Origin of Life and the Emergence of Intelligence:

Some Articles:

Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials (Sci Am 1999)
The Emergence of Intelligence (Sci Am 1998)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life (Sci Am 1997)  (By Sagan)
 



 

Fun Stuff:

H.G. Wells: "War of the Worlds"

Movie reviews:

Here is a "Badastronomy" review of  Contact  (there wasn't much bad about it, though). Another  excellent website  about the movie Contact.  How realistic is "Contact"?  (A SETI-institute evaluation)

More Reviews:
Mission to Mars  ;  Red Planet