01926cam a2200325 i 4500 1164834903 TxAuBib 20201116120000.0 200214s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020007280 9781101904817 hardcover 110190481X hardcover (OCoLC)1141031108 PSt/DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF SO$ YDX BDX TP7 XYZ GL4 HBP QS3 IDLEW YDX ILC TxAuBib rda Johnson, Sarah Stewart, author. The sirens of Mars : searching for life on another world / Sarah Stewart Johnson. First edition. New York : Crown, [2020] xiii, 266 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Into the silent sea -- The light that shifts -- Red smoke -- The gates of the wonder world -- Stone from the sky -- Traversing -- Periapsis -- The acid flats -- In aeternum -- Sweet water -- Form from a formless thing. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-- on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find. Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life. She interlaces her journey as a female scientist with tales of other seekers, to offer 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. -- adapted from jacket. 20210826. Life on other planets. Mars (Planet.) TXKIP