The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time
Written by Elizabeth Howell and Nicholas Booth
Narrated by Miles Meili
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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.
Elizabeth Howell
Elizabeth Howell, PhD, is a space and science journalist based in Ottawa, Canada. She covered astronaut launches on two continents, pretended to be a Mars astronaut for two weeks, and recently finished a PhD in Aerospace Sciences. Her love of space began in 1996 after she watched the movie Apollo 13 for the first time, but it was Star Trek that got her thinking about the future of space travel and time travel. Read more about her work at elizabethhowell.ca.
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