Mars

By: Godwin, Robert

Space junkies and armchair astronauts are provided with comprehensive, handy references for a variety of space-related missions, vehicles, and concepts in this pocket-sized series. Compiled with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894959264
• ISBN13: 9781894959261
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Apogee Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Everything in 1 small book

How did they cram everything into one pocketbook ? the text gets mighty small on many pages. Buy this book its brilliant, but keep a pair of binoculars in your other pocket for some of the pages. It probably should have been a standard size book to do it justice.

Mars Exploration at it's finest!

I love this series. You can put them in the back of your pants pocket and enter another world of exciting space explorations. This Mars book is the best yet. It outlines the history of mans' knowledge about the red planet from it's discovery til now. It details our fascination with Earth's nearest neighbor and the search for life. From Roman folklore to Schiaparelli's canals to H.G. Wells "War of the World's". Mars spawned the dreams of Wernher von Braun travelling there and the book tells how we went there and what we found starting with the 1965 Mariner probes. The book goes into detail about our robot visits there and what we have found out about the forth world from the Sun. He concludes with our past and future plans for man to finally walk on that dusty world. A great value and highly reccommended!!!

What a GREAT Mars book!

I love what Apogee has done with this Mars pocket guide. There are images in here I've never seen before -- and I thought I'd seen 'em all! I especially love the old 19th-century maps of Mars, which are beautifully printed. It's amazing how comprehensive this little book is -- a gem. -- Andrew Chaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon"

Mars

As a family we have had to plough through numerous books to find the information that is required for school. I wish that we had found this book first - it was everything we needed. Good value too! Now I know about this series I will get all the others aswell.

Mars by Robert Godwin

And yet again, another fine book from Apogee. The "Pocket" Space Guide series is a great concept. And this particular book gives you just about everything you need to grasp the physical exploration of Mars. Well worth the admission.