02489nam a22003734a 4500001001200000003000800012005001700020006001900037007001500056008004100071010001700112020003300129040002100162035002100183043001200204050002300216082001700239100001900256245009900275250001200374260003800386300005300424504006600477505026600543520089900809533015201708650002701860650001601887650001701903651001801920655002901938710001701967856013101984ebr10235279CaPaEBR20260707180615.0m        u        cr cn|||||||||050329s2006    nyuaf   sb    001 0 eng    z  2005046560  z1400060109 (acid-free paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)646754166  azma----14aQB54b.S263 2006eb04a576.8/392221 aSawyer, Kathy.14aThe rock from Marsh[electronic resource] :ba detective story on two planets /cKathy Sawyer.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bRandom House,cc2006.  axii, 394 p., [16] p. of plates :bill. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [373]-375) and index.0 aScore -- Moon dust -- Odd ducks -- E.T.s handshake -- The convert -- Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy -- The grand inquisitor -- "Klaatu Barada Nikto" -- In the beam -- Schopf shock -- Explorations -- At daggers drawn -- Bingo -- Schadenfreude -- Down the rabbit hole.  aSixteen million years ago, an asteroid crashing into Mars sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was pulled by the Earth's gravity onto the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where a geologist spotted it. In its new home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the rock languished on a shelf for nine years. Then, in 1993, a geochemist unmasked the rock as a Martian meteorite. Before long, possible signs of once-living organisms were detected, and the obscure rock became a rock star. From the second the story broke in Science magazine, it spawned waves of excitement, envy, competitive zeal, and calculation. The narrative traces the steps that led to this risky move and follows the rippling impact on the scientists' lives, the future of space exploration, the search for life on Mars, and the struggle to understand the origins of life on Earth.--From publisher description.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aLife on other planets. 0aMeteorites. 0aMars probes. 0aMars (Planet) 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10235279zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view