PDF-(BOOS)-The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars tracing our centuriesold obsession with this seemingly desolate planetMars was once similar to Earth but today there are no rivers no lakes no oceans Coated in red dust the terrain is bewilderingly empty And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars sweeping over Terra Sabaea Syrtis Major the dunes of Elysium and Mare Sirenumon the brink perhaps of a staggering find one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern scienceIn this beautifully observed deeply personal book Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its ownJohnsons fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earths most hostile environments such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia developing methods for detecting life on other worlds Here with poetic precision she interlaces her own personal journeyas a female scientist and a motherwith tales of other seekers from Percival Lowell who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars to Audouin Dollfus who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon In the process she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth This other world has been our mirror our foil a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearningsEmpathetic and evocative The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos. 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Mars is geologically distinctive at the large scale. The southern hemisphere is made of ancient cratered terrain and the northern hemisphere flat, more recent (less impacted) terrain that is at lower elevation. This distinctive geology is called the . With its next . lander. , NASA plans to discover what turned Mars from a warm, wet place to the cold, arid planet we see today.. Long ago, the Red Planet was very different from the frozen, barren desert we have seen on our TV screens courtesy of Pathfinder. . Nymph daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. Believed she was the goddess of tides. Flooded lands for Poseidon’s kingdom. Zeus turned her into a monster because she had gotten too much land for her father’s kingdom. Brent Sherwood. brent.sherwood@jpl.nasa.gov. . GLEX, May 2012. The Space Show, July 24, 2012. FISO, August 1, 2012. HSF ≠ Exploration. GLEX – May 2012. Mars: On the Path or In the Way?. Sherwood . Mission to Mars. Captain Kirk doesn’t like mysteries and needs to find out what is on Mars – Life? . Spock wants to know what Rocks there are as he finds all new life/planets fascinating. Mission to Mars. Ashwin R. Vasavada. Deputy Project Scientist. Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech. Copyright . 2012 . California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.. Curiosity. NASA’. s Mars Exploration Program.