Destination Mars - The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet 978-1785782251

When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA’s Viking 1,

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Destination Mars - The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet
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One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in

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A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascina

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Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on

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A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fasci

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“I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal sno

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“I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal sno

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For millenia humans have considered Mars the most fascinating planet in our solar system. We’ve watched this Earth-like

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A full-color exploration of the links between ancient monuments on Earth, formations on Mars, sacred geometry, crop glyp

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