Overview
- Presents up-to-date information and beautiful imagery to complement the text
- Very readable text with no math nor scientific jargon
- A true “biography” of Mars and the knowledge we have gained on the Red Planet
- Received the annual State Award for Public Information granted by the Ministry of Education in Finland
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"With an easily readable, understandable style … Hotakainen begins this book with a long history of Mars, particularly concentrating on the early-20th-century speculations that the planet contained canals indicating the presence of intelligent life. … There is an excellent colored map of Mars near the back flap, many photographs accompanied by good explanations … . Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Libraries serving general readers, lower- and upper-division undergraduates, and two-year technical program students." (W. E. Howard, Choice, Vol. 46 (9), May, 2009)
"The book covers the early observers like Herschel, Schiaparelli and Lowell right through the latest space missions of NASA in the USA and now ESA in Europe. The style is light-hearted, almost flippant in places, and non-technical, as befits a book aimed at a general readership. … As a beautifully presented, very readable, not-too-technical but scientifically respectable and up-to-date account of interesting things about Mars, the latest contribution … about the Red Planet is to be welcomed by interested non-specialists everywhere." (F. W. Taylor, Contemporary Physics, November, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mars
Book Subtitle: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries
Authors: Markus Hotakainen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76508-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76508-2
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 176 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Planetology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astronomy, Observations and Techniques