Is Mars Habitable?

By Wallace, Alfred Russel

Book Id: WPLBN0002953080
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Is Mars Habitable?
Author:	Wallace, Alfred Russel
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Science, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Is Mars Habitable?
Historic Publication Date:	1907
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Russel Wallace, B. A. (1907). Is Mars Habitable?. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own scientific analysis of the martian climate and atmospheric conditions. Among other things Wallace pointed out that spectroscopic analysis had shown no signs of water vapour in the Martian atmosphere, that Lowell's analysis of Mars's climate was seriously flawed and badly overestimated the surface temperature, and that low atmospheric pressure would make liquid water, let alone a planet girding irrigation system, impossible. (from Wikipedia)

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Science, Essay/Short nonfiction