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

Description

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.

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.