A Traveler's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet - Softcover

Hartmann, William K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761126066 ISBN 13: 9780761126065

Verlag: Workman Publishing, 2003

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A richly illustrated study of the Red Planet utilizes a travel guide format to bring together recent scientific discoveries about Mars, describing such features as its dry riverbeds, huge volcano, possible ancient sea floor, impact craters, and more, all enhanced by a collection of photographs, maps, and artist renderings. Original.

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William K. Hartmann is the author, most recently, of A Traveler's Guide to Mars and co-author of Out of the Cradle. He is an internationally known scientist, writer, and painter, and winner of the first Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. He has an asteroid--#3341--named after him. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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In this extraordinary Baedeker accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing mars Global Surveyor spacecraft visitors will encounter:

• Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, rising three times as high as Mount Everest and covering an area the size of Missouri
• Tharsis Planitia, the "high plains of Mars," with plains rising 29,000 feet wide enough to cover Europe.
• Valles Marineris, an equatorial canyon so vast that America's Grand Canyon would be a mere tributary.

Plus: the "face" on Mars, the White Rock, the "Canals" of Xanthe and the first possible evidence of an ancient Martian life-form.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761126066
• ISBN 13: 9780761126065
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
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