Innate curiosity and many other motivating forces make it inevitable that
there’ll be manned landings on Mars this century, followed by colonisation. The
possibilities are immense and so is the adventure. Malcolm Walter’s The
Search for Life on Mars is an up-to-date survey on what has been
accomplished so far and what is planned. Mars is a hostile environment, so
Walter tempers his account with sobriety, but passion ferments underneath”.
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