Title: The hunt for life on Mars /
Authors: Goldsmith, Donald.
Publisher: Dutton,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Life on other planets; Exobiology.; Exobiology; Mars (Planet)
Abstract: Discusses the announcement in 1996 of the discovery of ancient life-forms on Mars, found in a meteorite on Antactica in 1984, and details the controversy that the discovery set off and its scientific and philosophical implications.
Contents: Preface -- The day the world changed -- The story of a rock -- The evidence in the rock -- The defense cross-examines -- The origin of life -- Can life exist on Mars now? -- Future missions to Mars.