Books like Mars by DK Publishing
Eyewitness Mars offers an engaging, nonfiction overview of Mars suitable for juvenile readers. It traces humanity’s early fascination with the planet, its portrayal in popular culture, and scientific views before the Space Age. The book follows the launch of key missions—Mariner 4, 6, and 7—which revealed Mars’ terrain of craters, valleys, and volcanoes. Detailed maps from Mariner 9, the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Express, along with images from Viking 1 and 2 and the Pathfinder rover, illustrate the planet’s features. Readers learn about Mars’ atmosphere and weather, polar ice caps, canyons, dunes, and rocks, and explore questions about possible river beds, meteorites, and the search for water and life. The future of Mars exploration and potential colonization are also discussed, drawing on NASA’s latest research.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Science/Astronomy
Authors: DK Publishing
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