The Tangled Stars, my far-future humorous space opera coming out from DAW Books in October, has now officially appeared on the Penguin Random House Canada website, which means this is the official blurb. No cover …
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Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the anthology I Kickstarted earlier this year featuring short fiction by authors who were guests during the second year of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available pretty …
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"Conditions at Meridiani may have been habitable"
In a special issue, the magazine Science notes the conclusion from a Cornell University-led Mars rover science team: “Liquid water was once present intermittently at the martian surface at Meridiani, and at times it saturated the subsurface. Because liquid water is a key prerequisite for life, we infer that conditions at Meridiani may have been habitable for some period of time in martian history.”
Is that cool, or what?
And by the way, I guess we don’t capitalize “terrestrial” or “lunar,” but doesn’t “martian” look a little funny with a lower-case “m”?
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2004/12/conditions-at-meridiani-may-have-been-habitable/
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