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The prospects for life on Mars: A post Mariner 9 assessment : draft

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In this paper, Sagan reflects on the prospect of finding life on Mars in the wake of the Mariner 9 NASA mission. It reviews historical ideas of evidence for life on Mars and offers suggestions for what future missions should look for on the red planet. A later version of this draft was published as "The prospects for life on Mars: A pre-Viking assessment" in the journal Icarus in 1976.

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sagan carl extraterrestrial life life on other planets mars planet outer space exploration viking mars program us nasa national aeronautics and space administration project mariner us icarus manuscripts prospects life mars post mariner post mariner assessment draft eng the seth macfarlane collection of the carl sagan and ann druyan archive finding our place in the cosmos from galileo to sagan and beyond carl sagan ultra high resolution high resolution
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01/01/1974
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Sagan, Carl (Author)
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Project Mariner Us, Post Mariner, Viking Mars Program Us

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sagan carl extraterrestrial life life on other planets mars planet outer space exploration viking mars program us nasa national aeronautics and space administration project mariner us icarus manuscripts prospects life mars post mariner post mariner assessment draft eng the seth macfarlane collection of the carl sagan and ann druyan archive finding our place in the cosmos from galileo to sagan and beyond carl sagan ultra high resolution high resolution