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Searches for extraterrestrial life in the solar system: Status and perspectives

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The results of space studies of the Moon and Mars are considered from the perspective of questions related to the appearance and evolution of life, as presented in the monograph of I.S. Shklovskii “Universe, Life and Razum” (Vselennaya, Zhizn’, Razum [in Russian]).

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Original Russian Text © I.G. Mitrofanov, 2017, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 315–322.

Based on a talk presented at the international conference “All-Wave Astronomy. Shklovskii-100” in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of I.S. Shklovskii (Moscow, Russia, June 20–22, 2016). Printed by recommendation of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the conference.

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Mitrofanov, I.G. Searches for extraterrestrial life in the solar system: Status and perspectives. Astron. Rep. 61, 324–331 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772917040138

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