Book description
Uncover the mysteries, wonders and natural history of Mars: as close as you'll get to an eye-witness perspective of the incredible 'Red Planet'.
'Impassioned and thought-provoking, it's a highly readable work of popular science' The Observer
'A book of titanic clashing elements, stupendous impacts, cataclysmic eruptions, devastating forces, planet-wrenching seisms...…
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1 author picked The Red Planet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Be transported to Mars in this simply told yet factual history of the Red Planet.
You’ll discover the weather, the atmosphere, what it’s like to walk amidst the dusty clay ground and what it would be like to traverse it via a rover. But from that point, the author conjectures how Mars came to be in its place in our solar system.
Highly readable for all ages. A necessity if you think you’d want to move there someday.
From Ginger's list on mars and imaginative worlds in and about space.
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