The Rock from Mars: A True Detective Story on Two Planets
Kathy Sawyer, . . Random, $25.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-6010-8
When geologist Robbie Score spied the little green rock lying on the bluish-white Antarctic landscape on a December day in 1984, she had no idea it would change her life, provoke fierce controversies among scientists around the world and challenge humankind's view of ourselves. Her discovery was the meteorite from Mars that captured the world's attention in 1996 when NASA scientists claimed that minuscule structures deep within it were the fossilized remains of ancient Martian life. As former
Reviewed on: 11/21/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 288 pages - 978-1-58836-527-9