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The Scientific Discovery of Life on Mars: Handbook of Planethography for the study of planets and the search for life in the Solar System

The Scientific Discovery of Life on Mars: Handbook of Planethography for the study of planets and the search for life in the Solar System

Viola, Gianni

Paperback

Series: Essay Research, Book 97

Astronomy & SpacePhysics

Publisher Price: $40.99

ISBN10: 8867884263
ISBN13: 9788867884261
Publisher: If Press Srl
Published: Dec 6 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Three centuries after Galileo Galilei's first observation of Mars (1609), the great Schiaparelli, commenting on his findings since 1878, stated: Everything will depend on the progress made in the photographic representation of Mars in the coming years. The issue will take a big step forward when photographs are obtained that allow precise measurements to be taken from them. In these words, he was actually foreshadowing, without imagining it, space flight and its use in place of telescopic observation! Observing the planet through a telescope, he did so as a geographer and not as an astronomer, and his very correct position at the time was not understood and, it seems, is still not understood today. In fact, half a century later, with the beginning of the space age (1971) and the use of automatic exploration probes, research obtained the images that the great Italian scientist had already imagined in his brilliant intuitions.

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