Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies

List of Contributors<br>Pathways to Life on Earth and Other Planetary Bodies; Joseph Seckbach<br>Introduction; Emeritus Giora Shaviv<br>Terestrial Halophylies, Evaporite Environments and The Search for Life on Mars; Roberto Barbieri and Nunzia Stivaletta<br>Vescicular Basalts as a Niche for Microbial Life; Barbara Cavalazzi, Frances Westall and Sherry L. Cady<br>Seti: Assessing Imaginative Proposals; Stephen P. Cook<br>Molecules Between the Stars; Nick Cox<br>Prokaryotic Communities Below Planetary Surfaces and Their Involvement In The Nitrogen Cycle; Friedrich W. Gerbl, Gerhard W. Weidler, Angelika Breitfuss, Marion Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer and Helga Stan-Lotter<br>Extrasolar Planets; Eike W. Guenther<br>Life Without Water: The Sleeping Chironomid and Other Anhydrobiotic Invertebrates and Their Utilization in Astrobiology; Oleg Gusev And Takashi Okuda<br>Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes; Arnold Hanslmeier<br>Glaciopanspermia: Seeding the Terrestrial Planets with Life? Joop M. Houtkooper<br>Chemical Evolution In Primeval Seas; Kamaluddin<br>Terrestiral Analogues for Early Planetary Oceans: Niuafo‘Ou Caldera Lakes (Tonga) and their Geology, Water Chemistry and Stromatolites; Stephan Kempe and Józef Kazmierczak<br>Comparison of Environment Types with Liquid Water on Mars; Akos Kereszturi<br>Criteria of Possible Habitability of Earth-Like Exoplanets; Leonid V. Ksanfomality<br>Origin of the Genetic Code and Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds; Zita Martins<br>Dynamical Aspects for the Earth’s Habitability; Elke Pilat-Lohinger<br>A Dynamic Scheme to Assess Habitability of Exoplanets; Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Abel Méndez, Alberto G. Fairén, Philip Von Paris, Carol Turse, Grayson Boyer, Alfonso F. Davila, And Marina Resendes De Sousa António<br>Astrobiology of Titan; Michael Simakov<br />The Likelihood of Halophilic Life in the Universe; Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, Marion Dorn-Mayr-Pfaffenhuemer, Tatjana K. Polacsek, Andrea Legat, Anita K. Holzinger, Michael Grösbacher And Andreas Weigl<br>Production of Dormant Stages and Stress Resistance of Polar Cyanobacteria; Daria Tashyreva and Josef Elster<br>Can the Evolution of Multicellularity be Anticipated in the Exoploration of the Solar System? H. P. De Vladar and J. Chela-Flores<br>Antarctica as Model for the Possible Emergence of Life on Europa; Suman Dudeja, Aranya B. Bhattacherjee and Julian Chela Flores<br>The Likelihood of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life; Rob Hengeveld<br>The Astrobiological Potential of Polar Dunes on Mars; Ákos Kereszturi, Szaniszló Bérczi, András Horváth, Tamás Pócs, András Sik And Szathmáry Eörs<br>Life in Earth’s Lava Caves: Implications for Life Detection on Other Planets; Diana E. Northup, Jennifer J.M. Hathaway, Jessica R. Snider, Monica Moya, Matthew G. Garcia, Maria L.N. Enes Dapkevicius, Cristina Riquelme Gabriel, Fred D. Stone, Michael N. Spilde, And Penelope J. Boston<br>Life in the Saturnian Neighborhood; Athena Coustenis, F. Raulin, Georgios Bampasidis And Anezina Solomonidou