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Mentre si dispiega una nuova ondata di esplorazioni interplanetarie, un giovane e talentuoso scienziato planetario traccia la nostra secolare ossessione per Marte. ''Splendidamente scritto, emozionante: una lettera d'amore a un pianeta'' DERMOT O'LEARY, BBC Radio 2 Marte, sconcertantemente vuoto, ricoperto di polvere rossa, è un posto improbabile in cui riporre le nostre speranze di trovare vita altrove. Eppure, in questo momento, più astronavi stanno orbitando, sorvolando Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, le dune di Elysium e Mare Sirenum, forse sull'orlo di una scoperta che ispirerebbe l'umanità tanto quanto qualsiasi altra nella nostra storia. Con precisione poetica e grazia, Sarah Stewart Johnson traccia la suggestiva storia delle nostre esplorazioni di Marte. Intreccia il suo viaggio personale di scienziata con i racconti di altri ricercatori, da Galileo a William Herschel a Carl Sagan, che hanno scandagliato questo enigmatico pianeta alla ricerca di segni di vita e lo hanno trasformato, nella nostra comprensione, da un lontano punto di luce in un mondo complesso. In definitiva, dimostra come la sua storia sia anche una storia sulla Terra: è un contrasto, uno specchio, un riflesso rivelatore delle nostre stesse ansie e desideri di scoprire - se siamo fortunati - che non siamo soli. ''Scritto con eleganza e infinitamente divertente'' Sunday Telegraph ''Affascinante'' The Times ''La prosa di Johnson è un turbine di meraviglia lirica, varia e multicolore come i deserti color albicocca, i cieli color caramello e i tramonti azzurri di Marte'' Anthony Doerr, New York Times Book Review ''Elegantemente realizzato'' Lord Martin Rees, astronomo reale.
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Sarah Stewart Johnson is an associate professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches astrobiology and planetary science and leads a biosignatures laboratory. A former Goldwater, Truman, and Rhodes Scholar, as well as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, she received degrees in PPE and in Biology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from MIT. She worked with President Obama's science advisor in the White House, and now serves on the science team for NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover.
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