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Praise for Discovering Mars
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1. Wanderers and Wonderers
2. The Warfare with Mars
3. The First Telescopic Reconnaissance
4. Mappers of Strange Lands and Seas
5. Mars Above the Dreaming Spires
6. The Moons of Mars
7. A Tale of Two Observers
8. Mars in the Gilded Age
9. The Rise and Fall of the Canals
10. The Martian Sublime
11. Marsniks and Flyby Mariners: The 1960s
12. A Martian Epic: Mariner 9
13. Vikings Invade the Red Planet: 1976–1980
14. A Sedimentary Planet
15. Baby Steps: Back to the Surface with Pathfinder
16. Mineral Mappers
17. Living on Mars with Spirit, Opportunity, and Phoenix
18. Mountain Climbing with Curiosity
Color Plates
19. Atmospheric Explorers
20. Shooting the Moon(s): Spacecraft Exploration of Phobos and Deimos
21. Ongoing and Upcoming Missions: The 2020s
22. Our Future Mars
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Chronology of Mars Mission Launches
Appendix B: Mission and Instrument Acronyms
Appendix C: Physical and Orbital Characteristics of Mars, Phobos, and Deimos
Appendix D: Oppositions of Mars, 1901–2099
Appendix E: Mars Nomenclature
Appendix F: A Seasonal and Historical Almanac for Mars
Appendix G: Timekeeping on Mars
Appendix H: NASA’s Historical Investment in Mars Exploration
Notes
Index
About the Authors