In each of these, a single giant planet is known to exist on a nearly circular orbit inside the habitable zone of the system.
If any are found, follow-up observations on other instruments will be used to search for terrestrial, potentially habitable, planets and moons.
The book begins by reviewing the evidence for organic material in space and the availability of habitable planets.
Such planets are expected to occupy the outer regions of their habitable zones where stellar flux and effective temperatures are lower.
This method can now be applied to any exoplanetary system as it is discovered, to similarly determine whether it could house habitable terrestrial planets.
Is the southern hemisphere habitable and why are certain regions of the earth more suitable for habitation than others?
The other is the conceptualizations of environmental change once habitable environments had been created.
So these requirements for plate tectonics are already fundamental conditions for a habitable planet.