Landscapes of Mars

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This book presents in dramatic images the various landscapes and features of interest on Mars. It shows the planet dissected and probed. It shows mountains and valleys and volcanoes and possible sites of water and ice. It shows craters as evidence of Mars's violent past. The landscape of Mars is stark and forbidding, but perhaps no more so than the New World was to early explorers.
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Welcome to the next New World! Take a tour with us of the highlights. See the landscapes that will greet the first humans to set foot on the Red Planet. Like a tourist in a strange and foreign land, experience what this smaller sibling of Earth has to offer its visitors.
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Fülszöveg

This book presents in dramatic images the various landscapes and features of interest on Mars. It shows the planet dissected and probed. It shows mountains and valleys and volcanoes and possible sites of water and ice. It shows craters as evidence of Mars's violent past. The landscape of Mars is stark and forbidding, but perhaps no more so than the New World was to early explorers.
Many of us may live to see the firk visitors heading to the Red s Planet. These pages can show you much of what they-will find>^ k when they get there. And go there, we surely wilL RoV.^^lthough^ is a staffTand forbidding landscape, Mars is a wTroti^^i^Worfd'^ to explore, the next New World.


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Welcome to the next New World! Take a tour with us of the highlights. See the landscapes that will greet the first humans to set foot on the Red Planet. Like a tourist in a strange and foreign land, experience what this smaller sibling of Earth has to offer its visitors.
You may never visit the Red Planet in person. But you can experience firsthand in these pages its beauty and uniqueness. You can learn about Mars's past, its land, and its soil. You can climb its mountains and descend into its craters. Like the twin rovers that have been roaming around on the surface, relaying back to us pictures of what they see, you can explore Mars for yourself. And you don't even have to put on a space suit!

Complementing veteran science writer Gregory Vogt's engrossing text are some of the best images ever taken of Mars, recent and past. Some of the images show what we have learned about Mars's interior. Others show us how Mars looks in different "seasons." All inform us of how Mars is similar to, or different from, other planets in the Solar System.
So get ready to begin the exciting visual tour offered in these pages. You really can leave Earth—without leaving your chair! Vissza