With poetic precision and grace, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the evocative history of our explorations of Mars.
Ultimately, she shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it is a foil, a mirror, a tell-tale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings to find - if we\'re lucky - that we\'re not alone..
She interlaces her personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers - from Galileo to William Herschel to Carl Sagan - who have scoured this enigmatic planet for signs of life and transformed it in our understanding from a distant point of light into a complex world.
With poetic precision and grace, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the evocative history of our explorations of Mars