Water and the Search for Life on Mars

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Provides a comprehensive account of the recent ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’ Mars Exploration Rover missions. <P>Relates how NASA/ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars, with the prevailing mood sometimes being optimistic and sometimes pessimistic. </P><P>Details an account of the rationale for the tests for life carried out by the Viking missions in 1976, with an account of the debate over their results. </P><P>A concise primer for readers wishing to ‘bone up’ when NASA next sends a lander explicitly to seek life on Mars. </P><P>Discusses the nature of life on Mars in terms of the most primitive forms of life on Earth, and reviews the implications of there being life on both planets.</P>