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Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in

Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in

Wilford, John Noble

Paperback

Astronomy & Space

ISBN10: 0679735313
ISBN13: 9780679735311
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Dec 3 1991
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
The astronomer Percival Lowell envisioned a world threaded by canals and peopled by ancient, intelligent beings. The Viking spacecraft showed us a seemingly sterile planet with a salmon-pink sky and sub-Antarctic temperatures. In this swiftly paced and authoritative book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer traverses the vast physical and cognitive distances between Earth and Mars--and between Lowell's Mars and Viking's--while offering an informed vision of the future of Martian exploration. Mars Beckons is a fascinating synthesis of myth, history, politics, and high technology, written with the momentum of a grand adventure story.

Absorbing, fast, paced and neatly balanced . . . It is a testimony to Wilford that he can cover so much ground. . . . He proves that science writing can be done excellently.--San Francisco Chronicle

Highly readable . . . well-crafted . . . an important book in the ongoing debate about space.--Newsday

An excellent book . . . Wilford offers us a compelling vision of our past, present and future with Mars.--Wall Street Journal

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