The Search for Life on Mars
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1999
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86448-787-9 (ISBN)
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86448-787-9 (ISBN)
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The search for life on Mars is under way, led by US space agency NASA, with other nations gearing up their own programmes. The discovery of just one fossil microbe on Mars would show that the planet supported, and perhaps still supports, life. This is an insider's view of the exploration.
Might there once have been life on Mars? Might there still be? The surface of Mars is now a frigid desert, but it was not always so. Three to four billion years ago, soon after our Solar System formed, the climates of Earth and Mars were similar. At that time there certainly was life on Earth. If it was here, why not on Mars too? Now the greatest exploration programme in history is under way: the search for the origin of life on Earth, and for life beyond Earth. A veritable armada of spacecraft is unlocking the secrets of the Red Planet and more missions are planned. Malcolm Walter has worked with NASA scientists for more than a decade helping to determine where to look for fossil life on Mars. In this book he provides an insight into the exhilarating, frustrating and occasionally acrimonious world of palaeobiology as he tells the story of humankind's search for life on Mars. He conveys the enormous difficulty of searching for and identifying life on another world in an inspirational account of the greatest adventure in history.
Might there once have been life on Mars? Might there still be? The surface of Mars is now a frigid desert, but it was not always so. Three to four billion years ago, soon after our Solar System formed, the climates of Earth and Mars were similar. At that time there certainly was life on Earth. If it was here, why not on Mars too? Now the greatest exploration programme in history is under way: the search for the origin of life on Earth, and for life beyond Earth. A veritable armada of spacecraft is unlocking the secrets of the Red Planet and more missions are planned. Malcolm Walter has worked with NASA scientists for more than a decade helping to determine where to look for fossil life on Mars. In this book he provides an insight into the exhilarating, frustrating and occasionally acrimonious world of palaeobiology as he tells the story of humankind's search for life on Mars. He conveys the enormous difficulty of searching for and identifying life on another world in an inspirational account of the greatest adventure in history.
Malcolm Walter is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University and has a contract with NASA to participate in a research program on the search for fossil life on Mars.
1 Earth, the Moon, people, Mars, the Universe2 The universal tree of life3 The first billion years of life on Earth4 The origin5 Meteorites from Mars: a case of wishful thinking?6 Mars analogues and the search strategy7 Missions to Mars8 So what?EpilogueGlossaryFurther readingIndex
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Sydney |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 195 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86448-787-9 / 1864487879 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86448-787-9 / 9781864487879 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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