The search for life in our Solar System and the implications for science and society

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-02-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsta.2010.0247PMID 21220283
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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