Meet the Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It

The search for life in the Universe is one of the biggest questions for humanity.

In this explosive book, Steven Benner argues we've been looking in the wrong place. In 1976, NASA landed two Viking missions on Mars specifically tasked with looking for current (or extant) Martian life. Given how the results of the onboard experiments were interpreted, no space mission since has returned to search for life living on Mars today.

With unparalleled access to the Viking archive, Benner explains w...