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

by WilliamK.Hartmann (Author)

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  2003

  $7.53

  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.