TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword/Joseph Seckbach and Maud Walsh -- Introduction/A Roadmap to Fata Morgana Wladyslaw Altermann -- List of Authors and Their Addresses -- GEOLOGY - Part 1: Fossils and Fossilization -- Nanosims Opens a New Window for Deciphering Organic Matter in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Samples [Oehler, D.Z. et al.] -- Disentangling the Microbial Fossil Record in the Barberton Greenstone Belt: A Cautionary Tale [Walsh, M.M. and Westall, F.] -- Looking Through Windows onto the Earliest History of Life on Earth and Mars [Wacey, D. et al.] -- Models for Silicate Fossils of Organic Materials in the Astrobiological Context [Kolb, V.M. and Liesch, P.J.] -- Microfossil Phosphatization and Its Astrobiological Implications [Shuhai Xiao and Schiffbauer, J.D.] -- Proterozoic Unicellular and Multicellular Fossils from India and Their Implications [Tewari, V.C.] -- Part 2: Stromatolites, Microbial Mats, and Biofilms -- Microbial Communities of Stromatolites [Brendan, B.P. et al.] -- Biosedimentological Processes That Produce Hot Spring Sinter Biofabrics: Examples from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka Russia [Goin, J.C. and Cady, S.L.] -- Cyanobacterial Mat Features Preserved in the Siliciclastic Sedimentary Record: Paleodeserts and Modern Supratidal Flats [Porada, H. and Eriksson, P.G.] -- Deciphering Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Life and the Origin of Animals: Common Challenges in Different Worlds [Antcliffe, J. and McLoughlin, N.] -- BIOLOGY - Part 3: Terrestrial Microbes as Analogs for Life Elsewhere in the Universe -- Microorganisms in the Ancient Terrestrial Subsurface - And in Outer Space? [Stan-Lotter, H. et al.] -- Evidence of Ancient Microbial Life in an Impact Structure and Its Implications for Astrobiology: A Case Study [Hode, T. et al.] -- Phylogenomic Dating and the Relative Ancestry of Prokaryotic Metabolisms [Blank, C.E.].

Fossil Microorganisms at Methane Seeps: An Astrobiological Perspective: Astrobiology of Methane Seeps [Barbieri, R. and Cavalazzi, B.] -- Endoliths in Terrestrial Arid Environments: Implications for Astrobiology [Stivaletta, N. and Barbieri, R.] -- Magnetotactic Bacteria and Their Potential for Terraformation [Ardelean, I.I. et al.] -- Part 4: Evolution and Astrobiology -- Paleontological Tests: Human-Like Intelligence Is Not a Convergent Feature of Evolution [Lineweaver, C.H.] -- Cosmic Life Forms [Grandpierre, A.] -- SPACE SCIENCES - Part 5: Astronomical and Cosmological Considerations in Astrobiology -- Astronomical and Astrobiological Imprints on the Fossil Records: A Review [Chela-Flores, J. et al.] -- Do Impacts Really Cause Most Mass Extinctions? [Prothero, D.R.] -- Irradiation of Icy Cometary Analogs: Its Relevance in Reference to Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life [Colin-Garcia, M. et al.] -- The Big Bang at Time Zero [Bahn, P.R. and Pravdo, S.H.] -- Molecular Imprints of Reaction Network: Living or Non-living [Matsuno, A.] -- Part 6: The Search for Evidence of Life on Mars -- The ALH84001 Case for Life on Mars [Davila, A.F. et al.] -- Preservation Windows for Paleobiological Traces in the Mars Geological Record [Fernández-Remolar, D.C. et al.] -- Part 7: Outlook and Summary -- Summary, Final Comments and Conclusions [Seckbach, J. et al.] -- Organism Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index.