John Noble Wilford

Mars Beckons

The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

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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. Absorb… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-73531-1
EAN: 9780679735311
Produktnummer: 4727071
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1991

Über den Autor

John Noble Wilford is a science correspondent for The New York Times. His professional career began in 1956 at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a general assignment reporter and a medical reporter. In 1962, he joined Time to work as a contributing science editor, then moved in 1965 to The New York Times to be a science reporter. In 1969 he wrote the New York Times front-page article about man's first walk on the moon. His was the only byline on the front page, beneath the headline Men Walk On Moon and under the subheading A Powdery Surface is Closely Explored. In 2008 Wilford received the University of Tennessee's Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award. He lives in New York.