Sirens of Mars

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As a new wave of interplanetary exploration launches in summer 2020, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars.

''This elegantly crafted book conveys what it''s like to be a young scientist involved in the quest'' Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

Mars - bewilderingly empty, coated in red dust - is an unlikely place to pin our hopes ...