Farah Alibay, who is often seen in the media talking about the Perseverance rover which landed on Mars, has just announced that she is releasing a book. This biography, which is called My Martian Year, will be released on September 28. Farah wrote to announce the news: “ I can finally announce it: I wrote a book!! My Martian Year is a biography that tells my journey and intertwines it with the history of the exploration of Mars. It comes out on September 28 and is available in preorder. ».
Here is the summary that can be found on the site where you can get the book: After spending 687 days looking up at the Red Planet, Farah Alibay shares his fabulous discoveries. On February 18, 2021, the Perseverance rover lands on Mars after traveling 471 million kilometers. At the same time, a young woman with scarlet hair and a contagious joie de vivre arrives on our screens. As the scientific prowess of the Mars 2020 mission accumulates, the whole world is getting to know this scientist like no other. In this book written during those frenetic months, Farah reveals her own conquest of space, from the quiet streets of Joliette to the futuristic installations of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Success and failure, challenges, the place of women in a traditionally male universe, diversity, performance anxiety, sport, knowledge and ambition: she tackles these questions with frankness and lucidity. Because Mars is just one step in the journey of this rock star of space engineering; who knows where science and imagination will take her? An inspiration for generations of dreamers. ».
