REaD PLANET: Recent Mars Reading List

As a result of the recent launches and exciting announcement by a NASA Johnson Space Center research team that the martian meteorite ALH84001 might contain evidence that Mars once had living organisms, there has been plethora of news stories and magazine articles about the Red Planet over the past several months. Some of these articles were listed in our September 1996 edition of TES News. Here we present a listing of articles we have found since that time. Additional articles will be listed in the next TES News, due out in early March 1997.

Non-Fiction Books

• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, by Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner, 352 p., The Free Press, New York, 1996. Also see Zubrin's Mars Direct Home Page.

• "Water Erosion on Mars and its Biologic Implications," by M. H. Carr, Endeavour (New Series), v. 20, n. 2, pp. 56-60, 1996.

• "Ancient Life on Mars?" by R. A. Kerr, Science, v. 273, August 16, 1996.

• "Lonely little Earthlings: Editorial" New Scientist, Aug. 17, 1996.

• "Did Martians Land in Antarctica?" New Scientist, Aug. 17, 1996.

• "Seeds, Soup and The Meaning of Life," by M. Chown, New Scientist, August 17, 1996.

• "Still Alive After All These Years?" by G. Walker, New Scientist, August 17, 1996.

• "The Oldest Meteorite from Mars," by J. Mullins and G. Walker, New Scientist, August 17, 1996.

• "Fossils Launch a Fleet of Probes," by V. Kiernan, New Scientist, August 17, 1996.

• "Plotting a Mission to Retrieve Rocks from Mars," by J. N. Wilford, The New York Times, p. B5, September 10, 1996.

• "Mars Global Surveyor Sets Stage for Future Flights," by B. A. Smith, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Sept. 16, 1996.

• "Mission to Mars," by S. Begley, Newsweek, September 23, 1996.

• "The Evolution of the Martian Climate," by A. P. Zent, American Scientist, v. 84, n. 5, pp. 442-451, September-October 1996.

• "Terraforming: Greening of the Red Planet," by D. Cravotta, Final Frontier, September-October 1996.

• "My Favorite Martians," by P. Dasch and J. Kross, Ad Astra, September-October 1996.

• "Why Mars?" by C. Sagan, The Planetary Report, September-October 1996.

• "A Martian Enigma," by M. Malin, The Planetary Report, September-October 1996.

• "Life on Mars? The Improbable Becomes Possible," by C. M. Anderson, The Planetary Report, September-October, 1996.

• "Life from Ancient Mars?" by J. K. Beatty, Sky & Telescope, Oct. 1996.

• "Global Climatic Change on Mars," by J. S. Kargel and R. G. Strom, Scientific American, November 1996.

• "Mars on Earth!?" by C. Veliz, Astronomy, November 1996.

• "Solar System Rock Exchange," Astronomy, p. 24, Nov. 1996.

• "Was there Life on Mars?" by R. Naeye, Astronomy, Nov. 1996.

• "Life on Mars?" by S. J. O'Meara, Odyssey, November 1996.

• "Martian Launch Pads," Sky & Telescope, p. 11, November 1996.

• "Space: Return to the Red Planet," Time, November 11, 1996.

• "A Messenger from Mars?" by L. David, Final Frontier, November-December 1996.

• "The Real Independence Day," by D. Cravotta, Final Frontier, November-December 1996.

• "Ground Zero for ALH84001?" Astronomy, p. 26, Dec. 1996.

• "Three Ships to Mars," by D. F. Doody, Sky & Telescope, December 1996.

• "Visions of Mars," by J. Lomberg, Sky & Telescope, Dec. 1996.