Week 9

• Lecture 4.11: Oceans on Europa
• Lecture 4.12: Energy on Europa
• Lecture 4.13: Exploring Europa
• Lecture 4.14: Enceladus
• Lecture 4.15: Introduction to Titan
• Lecture 4.16: Weird life on Titan
• Lecture 4.17: Habitable zones
• Lecture 4.18: Detecting exo-life
• Lecture 4.19: Looking around M-dwarfs
• Lecture 4.20: A mission to find life in the solar system
• Lecture 4.21: All good things must come to an end

Additional Readings

Europa

• There are a lot of interesting sites with reviews of why we think Europa has an ocean, such as this
• The key piece of evidence, though, comes from the Galileo magnetometer. A detailed paper on these results can be found here.

Enceledus

• The Wikipedia article appears accurate and up to date.
• The McKay paper on astrobiological implications is fun to read.

Titan

• I wrote a few interesting papers on clouds and circulation on Titan, back in the day. And fog, too.
• Wikipedia has quite a good overview of Titan.

Life on Titan

• Wikipedia discusses and links the papers we considered
• Has link to McKay paper

Habitable zones

• Wikipedia has too much peripherally relevant detail and is thus hard to read
• A simple explanation is here
• You can view the ever-expanding gallery of planets in some version of some habitable zone here

Biosignatures

• I think this is a very nice review paper

M dwarfs

• I am a big fan of the Mearth project

A mission...

• The paper by Carl Sagan is well worth reading