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The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea
The Search for Life on Mars Evolution of an Idea Author:Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. It is one of man's oldest and most tantalizing questions: Is there life beyond our world? And of all the heavenly objects of such speculation, the most persistent and romantically fascinating has been the planet Mars ... visited by man for the first time in NASA's recent Viking landings. Brilliantly and enthrallingly, Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr., on... more »e of today's finest science writers, here tells the story of just what happened in this scientific culmination of an age-old dream.
"The Search for Life on Mars is fascinating reading. It deals with what is, in my view, one of the most significant scientific achievements of this century. Mr. Cooper is to be congratulated on his outstanding success in making a complex subject simple and absorbing." -- Robert Jastrow
Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr., is a science writer for The New Yorker, for which he has reported on NASA's space programs back to the first Apollo moon landings. He has published four other books, most recently A House in Space, the story of Skylab.« less
ISBN-13: 9780030461668 ISBN-10: 0030461669 Pages:254 Edition:1st Owl Book ed Rating: