When I was a boy, eight planets – including the one upon which we all live – were known to exist, and only one was known to harbor life. Since that time, a few more, thousands to be a bit more accurate, have been discovered; and in their myriad, marvelous diversity, there may in fact be at least a few that have, do, or one day will also be home to other life forms.
When taking up Jan Zalasiewicz’ and Mark Williams’ Ocean Worlds; The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets be prepared to go deep – deep into the oceans, deep into the Earth, deep into space, and even deep into time itself. For as the authors make very clear, an understanding of the Earth’s oceans […]
With the recent report that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is sending back information regarding not just evidence of ancient lakes once having existed on Mars, I thought it might be a good time to point out that Ocean Worlds; The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this coming January.