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  title info:
    title: Water and the Search for Life on Mars
  name:
    name part: Harland, David M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 239 p. 162 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we’re going to Mars to search for life. We’re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science Ear where you find liquid water, A century ago, the world was enthralled by Percival Lowell’s vision of a Mars criss-crossed with the canals of a dying civilization distributing water from the polar caps. Later, Mars was thought to have been cold, dead and dry for eons, but striking new evidence suggests the planet was relatively warm and wet in geologically recent times, and that even now there are reserves of water frozen beneath the planet’s surface. Today, robot spacecraft maneuver across the Martian surface while others orbit overhead seeking evidence of water, ice, and landing sites for further exploration. In recent years, the very possibilities for life have dramatically expanded as discoveries by biologists and oceanographers have revealed bizarre life forms where none would have been expected. And as the growing evidence that water flowed on Mars becomes indisputable, more spacecraft are soon to follow. This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted science writer David Harland as he assembles and weighs the evidence in this timely and compelling book. It contains what you need to know behind today’s, and possibly tomorrow’s, headlines, including details of the Mariner, Viking, and Pathfinder missions and evolving theories of Martian geology and climate. It explains how the search accelerates with the Mars Orbiter and Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Harland sets this within the broader perspective of the likely nature of life on Mars as compared to primitive life on Earth. Finally, he analyzes the implications of there being life on both planets. Join the scientific adventure of a lifetime in this well…
  table of contents: Peering at Mars -- A close look -- The Vikings -- What is life? -- A multiplicity of missions -- The water dilemma -- Spirit -- Opportunity -- Future prospects.
  note: by David M. Harland.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387293721
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29372-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204160008.0
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