TheMartians

Contents Title page Map Chapter 1: Michel in Antarctica Chapter 2: Exploring Fossil Canyon Chapter 3: Archaea Plot Chapter 4: The Way the Land Spoke to Us Chapter 5: Maya and Desmond Chapter 6: Four Teleological Trails Chapter 7: Discovering Life Chapter 8: Coyote Makes Trouble Chapter 9: Michel in Provence Chapter 10: Green Mars Chapter 11: Arthur Sternbach Bringsthe Curveball to Mars success. Michel worried about this. They finished building their winter home by the fall equinox, March 21. After that the alternation of day and night was dramatic, the brilliant slanted light of the days ending with the sun sliding off to the north and over the Olympus Range, the long twilights leading to a black starry darkness that eventually would be complete, and last for months. At their latitude, perpetual night would begin a little after mid-April. The constellations as they revealed themselves were the stars of another sky, foreign and strange to a northerner like Michel, reminding him that the universe was a big place. Each day was shorter than the one before by a palpable degree, and the sun burned lower through the sky, its beams po......