The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life [Paperback]

Piers Bizony (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

In July 1996, a NASA team led by David McKay and Everett Gibson announced the discovery of fossilized traces of microbial life in ALH84001, a meteorite from Mars recovered from the Antarctic. Skeptics insist that the life-like chemical traces found in the meteorite could have been formed by non-biological processes; but most scientists on both sides of the debate agree that the organic compounds, life-derived or not, did originate on Mars.
-- How did the meteorite arrive on earth? How was its age determined?
-- What makes the scientists so sure it came from Mars?
-- What might the findings tell us about life on our own world?

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854104950
• ISBN-13: 978-1854104953
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,394,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed discription for the former Viking's survey on Mars, January 28, 1999

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This review is from: The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life (Paperback)

I have read this book with the very exciting feelings ,as reading a good scientific novel. The story bigins with the history of scientific novels as well as the history of the observation on Mars. The central portion of the book would de the argument of the experiments about the possibility of life on Mars. This argument is too deatiled to read the book with patience, but may be of considerable scientific importance. After leaving the story of Mars, this book also refers to the future endevour for searching life in the outer space beyond earth. This book may be best dedecating for amature astronomers or students interested in science.