TY - JOUR
T1 - Habitable Trinity
AU - Dohm, James M.
AU - Maruyama, Shigenori
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded through the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) . We most appreciate the helpful contributions made by Reiko Hattori, Administrative Associate of WPI-ELSI. We also express our sincere thanks to the two referees through Geoscience Frontiers whose detailed comments and suggestions were helpful in improving our paper.
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PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Habitable Trinity is a newly proposed concept of a habitable environment. This concept indicates that the coexistence of an atmosphere (consisting largely of C and N), an ocean (H and O), and a landmass (supplier of nutrients) accompanying continuous material circulation between these three components driven by the Sun is one of the minimum requirements for life to emerge and evolve. The life body consists of C, O, H, N and other various nutrients, and therefore, the presence of water, only, is not a sufficient condition. Habitable Trinity environment must be maintained to supply necessary components for life body. Our Habitable Trinity concept can also be applied to other planets and moons such as Mars, Europa, Titan, and even exoplanets as a useful index in the quest for life-containing planetary bodies.
AB - Habitable Trinity is a newly proposed concept of a habitable environment. This concept indicates that the coexistence of an atmosphere (consisting largely of C and N), an ocean (H and O), and a landmass (supplier of nutrients) accompanying continuous material circulation between these three components driven by the Sun is one of the minimum requirements for life to emerge and evolve. The life body consists of C, O, H, N and other various nutrients, and therefore, the presence of water, only, is not a sufficient condition. Habitable Trinity environment must be maintained to supply necessary components for life body. Our Habitable Trinity concept can also be applied to other planets and moons such as Mars, Europa, Titan, and even exoplanets as a useful index in the quest for life-containing planetary bodies.
KW - Atmosphere
KW - Habitable Trinity
KW - Landmass
KW - Ocean
KW - Sun
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gsf.2014.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.gsf.2014.01.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918539593
SN - 1674-9871
VL - 6
SP - 95
EP - 101
JO - Geoscience Frontiers
JF - Geoscience Frontiers
IS - 1
ER -