The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life - Softcover

Bizony, Piers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854104950 ISBN 13: 9781854104953

Publisher: Aurum Press, 1997

Synopsis

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?

About this title

Synopsis:

Presents the story of Martian exploration to date, including the discovery of fossilized traces of microbial life in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1854104950
• ISBN 13: 9781854104953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256