Compelling Evidence of Fossils and Microbialites on Ancient Mars

Vincenzo Rizzo, Giorgio Bianciardi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0827-5 (ISBN)

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This book offers an amazing collection of analyzed images from the Red Planet, extremely suggestive of ancestral life on Mars. The book evidences possible remnants of microbial life, and, even further, complex and repetitive structures, analyzed in detail and reminescent of life forms and traits of terrestrial fossils resembling skeletal microalgae and more. This work is a presentation of primary importance for astrobiologists, precambrian micropaleontologists, and lovers of space exploration.

Vincenzo Rizzo is a Geologist who earned his PhD in 1970. He is a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council has acquired extensive experience in landslide-risk, geomorphology, and sedimentology, publishing around 150 papers and many official reports on landslide mapping and monitoring. Currently retired since 2007, he is CNR Emeritus, analyses the NASA rover images, and publishes several articles on possible microbialites on Mars. Giorgio Bianciardi, Researcher at the University of Siena, Italy, retired in 2022, is a biologist, doctor and PhD. He has published or presented at national and international conferences 365 scientific works and books in the fields of astrobiology, astronomy and pathology, dealing in particular with morphometric analysis and signal analysis with chaotic methods. He has always dedicated himself to the sectors of astronomy, being the director and founder of astronomical observatories in the area where he lives. The minor planet 55418 is named after him.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-0364-0827-2 / 1036408272
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0827-5 / 9781036408275
Zustand	Neuware