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Water and the Search for Life on Mars (Record no. 501356)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780387293721
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-0-387-29372-1
Source of number or code doi
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QB1-991
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code WNX
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Subject category code SCI004000
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Subject category code JNF051040
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 520
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Harland, David M.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Water and the Search for Life on Mars
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by David M. Harland.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Praxis,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent XIX, 239 p. 162 illus.
Other physical details online resource.
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Content type term text
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Media type term computer
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Carrier type term online resource
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File type text file
Encoding format PDF
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Springer Praxis Books
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Peering at Mars -- A close look -- The Vikings -- What is life? -- A multiplicity of missions -- The water dilemma -- Spirit -- Opportunity -- Future prospects.
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Summary, etc. "Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we’re going to Mars to search for life. We’re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science Ear where you find liquid water, A century ago, the world was enthralled by Percival Lowell’s vision of a Mars criss-crossed with the canals of a dying civilization distributing water from the polar caps. Later, Mars was thought to have been cold, dead and dry for eons, but striking new evidence suggests the planet was relatively warm and wet in geologically recent times, and that even now there are reserves of water frozen beneath the planet’s surface. Today, robot spacecraft maneuver across the Martian surface while others orbit overhead seeking evidence of water, ice, and landing sites for further exploration. In recent years, the very possibilities for life have dramatically expanded as discoveries by biologists and oceanographers have revealed bizarre life forms where none would have been expected. And as the growing evidence that water flowed on Mars becomes indisputable, more spacecraft are soon to follow. This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted science writer David Harland as he assembles and weighs the evidence in this timely and compelling book. It contains what you need to know behind today’s, and possibly tomorrow’s, headlines, including details of the Mariner, Viking, and Pathfinder missions and evolving theories of Martian geology and climate. It explains how the search accelerates with the Mars Orbiter and Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Harland sets this within the broader perspective of the likely nature of life on Mars as compared to primitive life on Earth. Finally, he analyzes the implications of there being life on both planets. Join the scientific adventure of a lifetime in this well-researched and thoroughly engrossing true account.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular works.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Planetology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Observations, Astronomical.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astronomy
General subdivision Observations.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Space sciences.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astrobiology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astronomy.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular Science.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular Science in Astronomy.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Planetology.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astrobiology.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular Science, general.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9780387260204
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Springer Praxis Books
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29372-1
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