A Traveler's Guide to Mars : The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet

A Traveler's Guide to Mars : The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 468 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780761126065
  • DDC分類 919.92304

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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.