The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Autor Sarah Stewart Johnsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2021
'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter to a planet' DERMOT O'LEARY, BBC Radio 2
Mars - 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.
'Elegantly written and boundlessly entertaining'Sunday Telegraph
'Beguiling'The Times
'Johnson's prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multi-hued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars'Anthony Doerr,New York Times Book Review
'Elegantly crafted'Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141981581
ISBN-10: 014198158X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 014198158X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Sarah
Stewart
Johnsonis
an
associate
professor
at
Georgetown
University,
where
she
teaches
astrobiology
and
planetary
science
and
leads
a
biosignatures
laboratory.
A
former
Goldwater,
Truman,
and
Rhodes
Scholar,
as
well
as
a
Junior
Fellow
in
the
Harvard
Society
of
Fellows,
she
received
degrees
in
PPE
and
in
Biology
from
the
University
of
Oxford,
and
a
PhD
from
MIT.
She
worked
with
President
Obama's
science
advisor
in
the
White
House,
and
now
serves
on
the
science
team
for
NASA's
Curiosity
Mars
Rover.
Recenzii
Beautifully
written,
emotive
-a
love
letter
to
a
planet
Elegantly written andboundlessly entertaining
Beguiling
Johnson's prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multi-hued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars
Theinside storyof the exploration of Mars. A young woman scientist shows what it is like to be in the thick of exciting and ground-breaking research.
Exhilarating, informative, alwaysengaging... beautifulin its descriptions
Thiselegantly crafted bookconveys what it's like to be a young scientist involved in the quest.
A celebration of human curiosity, passion and perseverance.Superb in its storytelling, majestic in its vision,The Sirens of Marswill give readers a new appreciation for the preciousness of life in the cosmos.
The Sirens of Marsprovides the prospect of great discovery, and an introduction toa writer of the first rank.
There's no better guide to what NASA's various Mars missions have revealed ... A true love letter to geology, on this world and others
A must-readfor fans of our Martian neighbour and humanity's longstanding search for life elsewhere in the Universe
Mars is an exceptionally inhospitable place. The coldest Antarctic winter, the windiest Everest December - each is as nothing compared with an unremarkable day on the red planet. That is precisely why Mars is such a good place to look for life. If it exists there, Sarah Stewart Johnson writes, "the smallest breath in the deepest night", then the only conclusion is there must be life throughout the universe.This beguiling book is about the search for life on Mars - from those who thought the planet was criss-crossed with canals to those, like the author, who just hope for a microbe or two.
Brilliantly realised... Full of joy and existential curiosity, the book's images and metaphors take up residence in our minds and burn there, connecting scientific inquiry with deep questions about human existence. In every line Johnson makes us feel the passion for discovery and the desire to connect
Elegantly written andboundlessly entertaining
Beguiling
Johnson's prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multi-hued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars
Theinside storyof the exploration of Mars. A young woman scientist shows what it is like to be in the thick of exciting and ground-breaking research.
Exhilarating, informative, alwaysengaging... beautifulin its descriptions
Thiselegantly crafted bookconveys what it's like to be a young scientist involved in the quest.
A celebration of human curiosity, passion and perseverance.Superb in its storytelling, majestic in its vision,The Sirens of Marswill give readers a new appreciation for the preciousness of life in the cosmos.
The Sirens of Marsprovides the prospect of great discovery, and an introduction toa writer of the first rank.
There's no better guide to what NASA's various Mars missions have revealed ... A true love letter to geology, on this world and others
A must-readfor fans of our Martian neighbour and humanity's longstanding search for life elsewhere in the Universe
Mars is an exceptionally inhospitable place. The coldest Antarctic winter, the windiest Everest December - each is as nothing compared with an unremarkable day on the red planet. That is precisely why Mars is such a good place to look for life. If it exists there, Sarah Stewart Johnson writes, "the smallest breath in the deepest night", then the only conclusion is there must be life throughout the universe.This beguiling book is about the search for life on Mars - from those who thought the planet was criss-crossed with canals to those, like the author, who just hope for a microbe or two.
Brilliantly realised... Full of joy and existential curiosity, the book's images and metaphors take up residence in our minds and burn there, connecting scientific inquiry with deep questions about human existence. In every line Johnson makes us feel the passion for discovery and the desire to connect