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Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the