A trio of editors [Professors from Austria Germany and Israel] present Life on Earth and other
Planetary Bodies. The contributors are from twenty various countries and present their research
on life here as well as the possibility for extraterrestrial life. This volume covers concepts
such as life¿s origin hypothesis of Panspermia and of life possibility in the Cosmos. The
topic of extraterrestrial life is currently ¿hot¿ and the object of several congresses and
conferences. While the diversity of ¿normal¿ biota is well known life on the edge of the
extremophiles is more limited and less distributed. Other subjects discussed are Astrobiology
with the frozen worlds of Mars Europa and Titan where extant or extinct microbial life may
exist in subsurface oceans conditions on icy Mars with its saline alkaline and liquid water
which has been recently discovered chances of habitable Earth-like [or the terrestrial
analogues] exoplanets and SETI¿s search for extraterrestrial Intelligence.
