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Mars: Prospective Energy and Material Resources

The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars’s natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as … Continue reading

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Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative

On the 20th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, President George H.W. Bush stood atop the steps of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and proposed a long-range human exploration plan that included the … Continue reading

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The Martian Surface: Composition, Mineralogy and Physical Properties (Cambridge Planetary Science)

Phenomenal new observations from Earth-based telescopes and Mars-based orbiters, landers, and rovers have dramatically advanced our understanding of the past environments on Mars. These include the first global-scale infrared and reflectance spectroscopic maps of the surface, leading to the discovery … Continue reading

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Landscapes of Mars: A Visual Tour

Landscapes of Mars is essentially a picture book that provides a visual tour of Mars. All the major regions and topographical features will be shown and supplemented with chapter introductions and extended captions. In a way, think of it as … Continue reading

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Mars: An Introduction to its Interior, Surface and Atmosphere (Cambridge Planetary Science)

Our knowledge of Mars has changed dramatically in the past 40 years due to the wealth of information provided by Earth-based and orbiting telescopes, and spacecraft investigations. Recent observations suggest that water has played a major role in the climatic … Continue reading

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Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries

This book tells the story of Mars since the dawn of mankind’s curiosity for celestial wonders and the ancient beliefs through the revolution in our concepts of the cosmos around us in the 1600′s to the present day knowledge and … Continue reading

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Mars, a Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity’s Cosmic Context

The questions of our origin and cosmic abundance of life are among the most compelling facing humanity. We have determined much about the nature and origin of the Universe and our place in it, but with virtually all evidence of … Continue reading

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Planet Mars: Story of Another World (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)

Mars, like planet Earth, is a complex and vast world with a long history. The authors of this book give a new insight of Mars by adopting an original outline based on history rather than on subtopic (atmosphere, surface, interior). … Continue reading

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An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars

Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the possibility of atmospheric methane. The second is the possibility … Continue reading

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The Surface of Mars (Cambridge Planetary Science)

Our knowledge of Mars has grown enormously over the last decade as a result of the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the two Mars Rover missions. This book is a systematic summary of what we have learnt … Continue reading

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