Mars (DK Eyewitness Books)

✍ Scribed by Stuart Murray

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 74
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn all about Earth's closest neighbor in this unprecedented guide to the red planet. Including up-to-the-minute data from NASA's ongoing explorations, this amazing resource tells the whole story - from Mars' mystical significance in early cultures to the ambitious future plans for manned-flight explorations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
Mars of the ancients......Page 8
Astronomers focus on Mars......Page 10
Mars and popular culture......Page 12
On the eve of the Space Age......Page 14
The Red Planet revealed......Page 16
Mars in the Solar System......Page 18
Mariner 9: first to orbit Mars......Page 20
The first successful landings......Page 22
Three ages of Mars......Page 24
Martian atmosphere......Page 26
The moons of Mars......Page 28
Mars Pathfinder......Page 30
Mapping Mars......Page 32
Martian highs and lows......Page 34
Polar ice caps......Page 36
Canyons on Mars......Page 38
Craters on Mars......Page 40
Volcanoes of Mars......Page 42
Dunes on Mars......Page 44
Rivers on Mars......Page 46
Water on Mars......Page 48
Meteorites from Mars......Page 50
Is there life on Mars?......Page 52
Mars rovers and Martian rocks......Page 54
Unsuccessful missions......Page 56
Europe’s Mars Express......Page 58
Martian mysteries......Page 60
Future exploration......Page 62
Colonizing Mars......Page 64
Did you know?......Page 66
Timeline......Page 68
Find out more......Page 70
Glossary......Page 72
Index/Acknowledgments
......Page 74

✦ Subjects

Библиотека;Литература для детей и родителей;Развивающая литература;Формирование представлений об окружающем мире;Формирование представлений о Вселенной;