With a focus of the Perseverance rover mission, the "Quintessential
account of one of humanity's most intriguing quests" (Pail Halpern,
Medium), "A remarkable, timely, and up-to-date account of Mars
exploration" (Leonard David, "Space Insider," Space.com). 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, the book'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-as well as on the Perseverance and ExoMars rover missions
ahead. And the book looks forward to the newest, most exciting
frontier of all: the day, not too far away, when humans will land,
make the Red Planet their home, and look for life directly.
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