Screen LibraryThe search for life on Mars : the greatest scientific detective story of all time /
The definitive account of our quest to find life on the Red Planet.
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Arcade Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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The definitive account of our quest to find life on the Red Planet. "From The War of the Worlds to The Martian and to the amazing photographs sent back by the robotic rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, Mars has excited our imaginations as the most likely other habitat for life in the solar system. Now the Red Planet is coming under scrutiny as never before. As new missions are scheduled to launch this year from the United States and China, and with the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission now scheduled for 2022, this book recounts in full the greatest scientific detective story ever. For the first time in forty years, the missions heading to Mars will look for signs of ancient life on the world next door. It is the latest chapter in an age-old quest that encompasses myth, false starts, red herrings, and bizarre coincidences--as well as triumphs and heartbreaking failures. This book, by two journalists with deep experience covering space exploration, is the definitive story of how life's discovery has eluded us to date, and how it will be found somewhere and sometime this century. The Search for Life on Mars is based on more than a hundred interviews with experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and elsewhere, who share their insights and stories. While it looks back to the early Mars missions such as Viking 1 and 2, it's focus is on the experiments and revelations from the most recent ones--including Curiosity, which continues to explore potentially habitable sites where water was once present, and the Mars Insight lander, which has recorded more than 450 marsquakes since its deployment in late 2018. And it looks forward to the Perseverance and ExoMars rover missions, as well as the Mars Sample Return mission planned for the future"--Dust jacket flap. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781950691395 (hardcover) : 195069139X (hardcover) 9781950691661 (ebook) 1950691667 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | QB641 |
| CLC: | P185.3 |
| Call Number: | P185.3/H859 |
| Contents: | Frozen in time -- Inside out -- Curiousity -- The road to utopia -- The measure of Mars -- The pathfinder -- Waterworld -- Claims -- Reactions -- Signatures -- Return to sender. |