#simon morden phd

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Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

This was such a cool book. I mean, it is what it says it is on the tin, but, also so much more. Mars is always interesting. It’s Earth, but it's not, but it is, sorta. We can see what’s there now, but, since we haven’t set foot on it yet, we can’t see (in the way that we can dig down on Earth and look at rocks and tree rings and fossils and all that sort of thing) what was there before. Still, based on what we do know, the author, a geologist, does go through a ton of Mars’ history as we think it is right now. A really fun read.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson, Our Universe by Jo Dunkley, or Under Alien Skies by Philip C. Plait

The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars by Simon Morden