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Imagining Other Earths -- Princeton

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This might be of interest here. It's a free, online course from Princeton called Imagining Other Earths.

Imagining Other Earths
Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems.

Follow the link for more details, including the syllabus, texts, and recommended links.
 

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Oooh this is so cool, thanks!
 

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Wow! This is amazing. I would've loved to discover this before the course started, but this is still of amazing value.

Thanks for sharing!
 

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Those two books have some useful background information, like what environment conditions we can tolerate. Like temperatures and atmosphere compositions. But in some ways, they are hopelessly out of date. They were written in 1964, when spacecraft exploration of the Solar System had barely begun. Lots of attempts to reach the Moon, most of the failures, and the first successful flybys of Venus and Mars.

List of lunar probes - Wikipedia
List of Solar System probes - Wikipedia
List of interplanetary voyages - Wikipedia