The sirens of Mars : searching for life on another world
Johnson, Sarah Stewart2020
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Click and Collect for The sirens of Mars : searching for life on another worldRight now, spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium and Mare Sirenum - on the brink, perhaps, of a discovery that would inspire humankind as much as any in our history. With poetic precision, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the evocative history of our explorations of Mars, interlacing her personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers who have scoured the planet for signs of life. Ultimately, she shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it is a foil, a mirror, a tell-tale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings to find - if we're lucky - that we're not alone.
The sirens of Mars : searching for life on another world / Sarah Stewart Johnson.
London : Allen Lane, 2020.
xiii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Into the Silent Sea -- Chapter 2: The light that shifts -- Chapter 3: Red smoke -- Chapter 4: The gates of the wonder world -- Chapter 5: Stone from the sky -- Chapter 6: Traversing -- Chapter 7: Periapsis -- Chapter 8: The acid flats -- Chapter 9: In Aeternum -- Chapter 10: Sweet water -- Chapter 11: Form from a formless thing.
9780241216002
523.43
English
371650
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology | 523.43 JOH | Available |
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