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

ISBN-13: 9780679735311 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str.

Noble John Wilford; John Noble Wilford; Marty Asher

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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"