Planet Mars

Author : David Jefferis
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778731009
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Planet Mars written by David Jefferis and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Planet Mars looks at the scientific facts about Earth's nearest neighbor and delves into future exploration of the planet-possibly even colonization! Discoveries from the recent probes sent to the planet will be explored and whethere they help confirm signs of life on Mars or not.

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816516414
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet Mars written by William Sheehan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of observations of Mars and the rise and fall of belief in the existence of life on the planet, reports on the discoveries of the first spacecraft to study it, and provides advice for viewing Mars from the earth

Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623342740
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planet Mars written by Seymour Simon and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that there is a volcanic peak on Mars that is three times higher than Mount Everest? Seymour Simon takes young readers on a voyage to Planet Mars.Newly Updated (2012).

Author : Lincoln James
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433938243
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mars written by Lincoln James and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents general information about the planet Mars, including its place in the solar system, what its surface is like, what it is made of, and its moons.

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140496
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mars written by William Sheehan and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, eloquent account of our love affair with the Red Planet, Sheehan and O'Meara review the history of human fascination with our neighbor in the solar system and look at the prospects for manned space flight to Mars in this new century.

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544247
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Mars written by William Sheehan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millenia humans have considered Mars the most fascinating planet in our solar system. We’ve watched this Earth-like world first with the naked eye, then using telescopes, and, most recently, through robotic orbiters and landers and rovers on the surface. Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we’ve learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering through the sky becomes a blurry mirage of apparent seas, continents, and canals as viewed through Earth-based telescopes. Beginning with the Mariner and Viking missions of the 1960s and 1970s, space-based instruments and monitoring systems have flooded scientists with data on Mars’s meteorology and geology, and have even sought evidence of possible existence of life-forms on or beneath the surface. This knowledge has transformed our perception of the Red Planet and has provided clues for better understanding our own blue world. Discovering Mars vividly conveys the way our understanding of this other planet has grown from earliest times to the present. The story is epic in scope—an Iliad or Odyssey for our time, at least so far largely without the folly, greed, lust, and tragedy of those ancient stories. Instead, the narrative of our quest for the Red Planet has showcased some of our species’ most hopeful attributes: curiosity, cooperation, exploration, and the restless drive to understand our place in the larger universe. Sheehan and Bell have written an ambitious first draft of that narrative even as the latest chapters continue to be added both by researchers on Earth and our robotic emissaries on and around Mars, including the latest: the Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter drone, which set down in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February 2021.

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 : 1982172924
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Mars written by Robert Zubrin and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case for Mars makes living in space seem more possible than ever in this updated 25th anniversary edition, featuring the latest information on the planet's exploration and the drive to send humans there. Since the beginning of human history, Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it had long been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. But that is changing fast. In February 2021, the American rover Perseverance will touch down on Mars. Equipped with a powerful suite of scientific instruments—including some that will attempt to make oxygen from the Martian atmosphere—the rover also carries a helicopter that will take spectacular panoramic movies from the air. Most exciting of all, a spectrometer onboard may find evidence of fossils left behind by microbes millions of years ago, when the planet was warm and wet, proving at last that life on Earth is not unique, but a general phenomenon in the universe. Meanwhile, in Boca Chica, Texas, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has created a shipyard that is building and testing the vessels that will take humans to Mars before this decade is out. Leading space exploration expert Robert Zubrin crafted the daring blueprint for humanity’s reach to the Red Planet twenty-five years ago, when he first published The Case for Mars. Now, in this updated edition, he looks to the future once more to describe how—in an era when the American space program and private companies like SpaceX are racing to send astronauts to Mars—our first colonies there are imminent. In the grand tradition of successful explorers, Zubrin calls for a travel-light and live-off-the-land approach to Martian settlement. He explains how scientists can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars, produce fuel and oxygen on the planet’s surface with its own natural resources, build bases and communities, and one day, terraform—or alter the atmosphere of the planet in order to pave the way for sustainable life. As a landmark new mission opens the decisive campaign to take humans to the Red Planet, Zubrin lays out a comprehensive plan to build life on a new world.

Author : Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is There Life on Mars? written by Dennis B. Fradin and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fradin examines the theories about life on Mars, providing both historical and current information about our exploration of the Red Planet. B&W photographs, illustrations. full-color insert.

Author : K. Maria D. Lane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470784
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Mars written by K. Maria D. Lane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume "explores the origins of our Martian obsession in the late nineteenth century" and examines "the way turn-of-the-century Americans and Europeans thought about space, knowledge, and power." The author paints a picture of how "scientists and the public saw [Mars] around the beginning of the 20th century, when canals on the Red Planet seemed a very real possibility." It is a story of mountain observatories, of fieldwork conducted at a distance, and of how Mars's geographers sought social and scientific legitimacy, exploring how astronomy and geography intersected in the debates over the existence of life on Mars.

Author : Risto J. Pellinen
Publisher : Raud Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Mars! written by Risto J. Pellinen and published by Raud Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Mars has excited people's minds for centuries. After many attempts, in 1997 two probes, Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor, succesfully reached Mars. The newly published research results have again given hope that primitive life may be found on Mars. But Mars has not revealed all its secrets. The new studies have also given some surprising information. In addition to that, exploring our neighbour Mars gives us valuable knowledge that enables us to understand better our planet Earth. This book contains the basic facts about Mars known to Mankind at this moment. The authors are well-known Mars explorers from the U.S.A., Japan, and Europe.