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Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars


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Lowell, P. (1896) Mars. London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Link to: Link to the Internet Archive via the Open Library: http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/mars00lowe/mars00lowe.pdf
Licence: ID Numbers: Open Library OL23412243M, Internet Archive mars001owe
This book is out of copyright and available in the public domain.
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Wells, H. G. (1898) The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinnemann.
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Licence: This book is out of copyright and in the public domain in the US, but not in the UK/EU. Users from the latter region should not click on this link.

Lowell, P. (1906) Mars and its Canals. New York and London: The Macmillan Company.
Link to: Open Library: http://openlibrary.org/ Licence: ID Numbers: Open Library OL7030312M, Internet Archive marsanditscanals001oweiala This book is out of copyright and available in the public domain.

Wallace, A. R. (1907) Is Mars Habitable? London: Macmillan and Co., Limited.
Link to the Internet Archive via the Open Library: http://ia600409.us.archive.org/20/items/ismarshabitablec00wallrich/ismarshabitablec00wallrich.pdf
Licence: ID Numbers: Open Library OL7219726M, LC Control Number nuc87808309, OCLC/WorldCat 8257449, Internet Archive ismarshabitable00wallrich This book is out of copyright and available in the public domain.

Lowell, P. (1908) Mars as the Abode of Life,.New York: The Macmillan Company.
Link to the Internet Archive via the Open Library: http://ia600504.us.archive.org/22/items/marsabodeoflife00loweiala/marsabodeoflife00loweiala.pdf
Licence: ID Numbers: Open Library OL7035558M, LC Control Number 08036795, OCLC/WorldCat 1526909, Internet Archive marsabodeoflife001oweiala This book is out of copyright and available in the public domain.

Levin, G. V. (2011) ‘The Labeled Release Experiment – Past and Future’.
This is a pre-publication manuscript, used here with kind permission of Dr Gilbert V. Levin, Adjunct Professor, Beyond Centre, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Sounds of Earth, made available via a link to: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sounds.html
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Scrambles of Earth, made available via a link to: http://earthscramble.com
Licence: SETI-X. ‘No profit is sought from these sounds, only the greater information.’

McKay, Chris P. (2004) ‘What Is Life – and How Do We Search for It in Other Worlds?’
PLoS Biology, September, Volume 2, Issue 9/e302.
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC516796/pdf/pbio.0020302.pdf
Licence: © 2004 Chris P. McKay. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Zhuravlev, Y.N. and Avetisov, V.A. (2006) ‘The definition of life in the context of its origin’, Biogeosciences, 3, 281-291.
Link to: http://www.biogeosciences.net/3/281/2006/bg-3-281-2006.pdf
Licence: ©Author(s) 2006. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Rampelotto, P.H. (2010) ‘Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology’, Sustainability, 2010, 2, 1602-1623; doi: 10.3390/su2061602.
Link to: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/6/1602/pdf
Licence: ©2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an Open Access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Baum, S. D. (2010) ‘Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology’, Sustainability, 2010, 2, 591-603; doi: 10.3390/su2020591.
Link to: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/2/591/pdf
Licence: ©2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an Open Access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Kember, S. (2006) Creative Evolution?: The Quest for Life (On Mars), Culture Machine, InterZone (March).
Link to: http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/235/216
Licence: © Kember. Culture Machine is an open-access journal.