A Traveller's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet - Softcover

Hartmann, William K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761126066 ISBN 13: 9780761126065

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

In this title, astronomer and writer William K. Hartmann reveals all of Mars' glories, with accounts of discoveries and dozens of up-to-date photographs. Readers can visit the largest volcano in the solar system, the grandest canyon, giant impact craters, lava flows and more.

About this title

About the Author

William K. Hartmann is the author, most recently, of A Traveler's Guide to Mars and co-author of Out of the Cradle. He is an internationally known scientist, writer, and painter, and winner of the first Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. He has an asteroid--#3341--named after him. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

From the Back Cover

In this extraordinary Baedeker accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing mars Global Surveyor spacecraft visitors will encounter:

• Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, rising three times as high as Mount Everest and covering an area the size of Missouri
• Tharsis Planitia, the "high plains of Mars," with plains rising 29,000 feet wide enough to cover Europe.
• Valles Marineris, an equatorial canyon so vast that America's Grand Canyon would be a mere tributary.

Plus: the "face" on Mars, the White Rock, the "Canals" of Xanthe and the first possible evidence of an ancient Martian life-form.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761126066
• ISBN 13: 9780761126065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450