Terrestrial exoplanets are exciting objects to study because they could be potential habitats for extraterrestrial life. Both the search and the characterization of terrestrial exoplanets are flourishing. Particularly, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered Earth-sized planets receiving similar amount of radiative heat as Earth. Central in the studies of terrestrial exoplanets is to characterize their atmospheres and to search for potential biosignature gases (the atmospheric components that indicate biogenic surface emissions). To achieve this goal, a deep understanding of the key physical and chemical processes that control the atmospheric composition and the atmosphere-surface interaction is pivotal.
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Hu, R. (2015). Photochemistry of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. In Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances (pp. 291–308). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45052-9_12
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