Presents the harsh landscape of the Red Planet through 3-D and color images from the robotic explorers Spirit and Opportunity; provides a close-up look a the Martian rocks, craters, valleys, and other geologic configurations.
Welcome to Mars! Through the eyes of Curiosity, Opportunity, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, this book will introduce you to the geology of Mars and the groundbreaking achievements in the exploration of the Red Planet.
spony Coring Above : This photo , taken by Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell , shows fellow astronaut Alan Shepard and the central station of the ALSEP they had set up at the first stop along their excursion toward Cone Crater .
When Earthman John Carter is transported to the alien planet of Barsoom, he finds himself in the middle of a war between two rival societies, and works with beautiful princess Dejah Thoris to end the conflict.
This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, ...
Filled with vivid photographs taken on Earth, in space, and on Mars; arresting maps; and commentary from the world's top planetary scientists, this fascinating book will take you millions of miles away--and decades into the future--to our ...
In the penultimate chapter of the book, the author explains an adaptable and mobile exploration architecture that will enable long-term human exploration of Mars, perhaps making it the next space-based tourist location.
An examination of how the daily work of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers was organized across three sites on two planets using local Mars time.
It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life." —Jon Stewart When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed ...
This book gives a new insight of Mars by adopting an original outline based on history rather than on subtopic (atmosphere, surface, interior).
This book is designed to be a guide for teachers and their students to use during a Science, Technology and Engineering course.