The Sirens of Mars
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As a new wave of interplanetary exploration launches in summer
2020, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old
obsession with Mars. 'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter
to a planet' DERMOT O'LEARY, BBC Radio 2Mars - bewilderingly empty,
coated in red dust - is an unlikely place to pin our hopes of
finding life elsewhere. And yet, right now multiple spacecraft are
circling, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of
Elysium and Mare Sirenum - on the brink, perhaps, of a discovery
that would inspire humankind as much as any in our history.With
poetic precision and grace, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the
evocative history of our explorations of Mars. She interlaces her
personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers - from
Galileo to William Herschel to Carl Sagan - who have scoured this
enigmatic planet for signs of life and transformed it in our
understanding from a distant point of light into a complex world.
Ultimately, she shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it
is a foil, a mirror, a tell-tale reflection of our own anxieties
and yearnings to find - if we're lucky - that we're not
alone.'Beguiling' The Times'Elegantly crafted' Lord Martin Rees,
Astronomer Royal'A celebration of human curiosity, passion and
perseverance. Superb in its storytelling, majestic in its vision,
The Sirens of Mars will give readers a new appreciation for the
preciousness of life in the cosmos' Alan Lightman, author of
Einstein's Dreams
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