Mars

Stephen James O'Meara (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2020
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-220-4 (ISBN)

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The most up-to-date account available of Mars, a small world with a big reputation.

Mars is a small world with a big reputation. This mysterious planet - with volcanoes that dwarf Mount Everest, a canyon system that would stretch fully across the USA and curious landscapes that may support life - has fascinated
us for centuries.
In the most up-to-date account available of the elusive `Red Planet', Stephen James O'Meara follows our longstanding love affair with this bewildering world, from the musings of humanity's first stargazers, to the imaginings of science-fiction writers and film-makers, to the latest images and discoveries from orbiting spacecraft and robotic rovers. The book also reviews plans for piloted missions to Mars, and what it will take for those missions to succeed.

Stephen James O'Meara is an award-winning astronomer and author of more than a dozen books, including A Dictionary of Space Exploration (2018). He is a columnist and editor for Astronomy magazine, associate editor of GeminiFocus, and asteroid 3637 is named O'Meara in his honour.

1 Communion with Mars
2 The `Miniature of Our Earth'
3 Romancing Mars
4 The First Emissaries to Mars
5 Lifting the Curse at Mars
6 Scouting Out Humanity's Next Home
7 Mars: Our Home Away from Home?
8 The Lilliputian Moons of Mars
9 Observing Mars

Appendix I: Mars Oppositions, 2020-35
Appendix II: Mars Fact Sheet
Appendix III: Mars Missions

References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Kosmos
Zusatzinfo	100 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 220 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
ISBN-10	1-78914-220-2 / 1789142202
ISBN-13	978-1-78914-220-4 / 9781789142204
Zustand	Neuware