ISBN 9780810972742 | 0810972743 Textbooks - "A Passion for Mars Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet" by Andrew Andrew Chaikin Chaikin Andrew Chaikin ForewordJames Cameron

Authors: Andrew - Andrew Chaikin - Chaikin - Andrew Chaikin; Foreword-James Cameron
ISBN 10: 0810972743
ISBN 13: 9780810972742
Edition: First Edition
Release: October 1, 2008
Format: Hardcover (280 pages)
List Price: $35.00
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List Price: $35.00

Tags: Science, General,

Book Description:
The quest for Mars is chronicled by bestselling author Andrew Chaikin in this story of a passionate band of Earthbound explorers caught in the irresistible pull of the Red Planet. They include celebrated figures: astronomer Carl Sagan, who champions the idea of life on Mars-; rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, drawing up plans for human Mars expeditions; and science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, standard-bearer for Mars’s crucial place in human destiny. Readers also meet the rogue grad students known as the Mars Underground,” keepers of the flame when Mars falls off NASA’s radar; biologist Jerry Soffen, looking for signs of life in a Martian meteorite; geologist Mike Malin, who defies skeptics to reveal a Mars no one imagines; and many others, including Chaikin himself, who served on the first Viking Mars landing and covered Mars exploration as a science journalist. Based on extensive interviews, illustrated with compelling images, and animated by the author’s own passion, Chaikin’s account will resonate with anyone who has ever dreamed of a journey to Mars.

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A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet