Water Worlds in the Solar System

Table of Contents

1. Knowing Earth to Better Understand Extraterrestrial Worlds 2. Terrestrial Analogues and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents Their Roles in Exploring Ocean Worlds, Habitability, and Life beyond Earth 3. Biosignatures the Prime Targets in the Search for Life beyond Earth 4. Significance of Earthly Extremophiles in the Search for Habitability beyond Earth 5. Lunar Explorations: Discovering Water, Minerals, and Underground Caves and Tunnel Complexes Hope for Human Settlement and Resource Exploitation? 6. Liquid Water Lake Under Ice in Mars's Southern Hemisphere Possibility of Subsurface Biosphere and Life 7. Could Near-Earth Watery Asteroid Ceres Be a Likely Ocean World and Habitable? 8. Water on Near-Earth Asteroid Vesta Past and Present 9. An Ocean and Volcanic Seafloor Hiding Within Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa Eruption of Water Vapour Plumes Near its South and North Poles 10. Salty Ocean and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Tall Plume of Gas, Jets of Water Vapour and Organic-Enriched Ice Particles Spewing from its South Pole 11. Hydrocarbon Lakes and Seas & Internal Ocean on Titan Resemblance with Primitive Earth's Prebiotic Chemistry 12. A Likely Ocean World Fostering a Rare Mixing of CO and N2 Ice Molecules on Neptune's Moon Triton 13. Subsurface Ocean of Liquid Water on Pluto 14. Hunting for Environments Favorable to Life on Planets, Moons, Dwarf Planets, and Meteorites

Authors

Antony Joseph Formerly, Chief Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, India. Dr Antony Joseph has over 40 years' experience in oceanography research on various aspects related to oceanographic sciences, ocean technologies, limnology, hydrology, meteorology, and surface meteorology technologies. He is currently retired but was Chief Scientist of the National Institute of Oceanography, India for 34 years where he conducted research in the areas of ocean currents, sea-level, and surface meteorological measurements. Dr Joseph has worked in numerous countries such as the UK, Norway, Portugal, France, Ghana, Singapore, Japan, South Africa, Russia, Australia, and USA on official capacity in connection with sea-level related research and operational activities. He has authored three Elsevier books: Tsunamis: Detection, Monitoring, and Early-Warning Technologies (2011); Measuring Ocean Currents: Tools, Technologies, and Data (2013); and Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid (2016).