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Millions of viewers watched in fascination as the Mars Sojourner rover maneuvered around the Red Planet's surface like an interplanetary dune buggy, sending back pictures of rocks and boulders. The books and CD-ROMs below detail that incredible mission plus other missions to Mars before and since the Pathfinder mission including the Spirit and Opportunity roving robots.

 

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   Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
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From the charismatic scientist and leader of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the search for life on Mars. Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. He dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004 - and knows firsthand their findings.

Combining the journey of a young scientist with the history of NASA's Mars space program, Roving Mars offers a dramatic account of one of the most amazing adventures of our time. In an incredibly conversational and compelling voice, Squyres manages to go into detail about how the MER mission was born, covering the politics, mistakes, and confusion that ensued. He doesn't shy away from the technical aspects of the mission, but presents them in a way that is accessible to the most un-scientifically minded among us. The author leads us through the exhausting and exhilarating race to get the rovers to the launch pad in time - and finally, the amazing story of Spirit's and Opportunity's journeys to Mars and what they found there.

 

Spirit has endured a communications breakdown and a troublesome rear wheel, but Opportunity quickly found geological evidence for the existence of water millions of years ago. Squyres relates the toll that monitoring the rovers took on his colleagues. The Martian day is 39 minutes longer than a day on Earth, so the team had to reset their watches and their internal clocks to work, eat and sleep like Martians.

The Author communicates the excitement and the anxieties involved in a project of this magnitude while steering clear of technical jargon. Includes 16 pages of color illustrations.

 

 

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   Mars: The NASA Mission Reports
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Mars: The NASA Mission ReportsIn 1964 the United States of America launched Mariner 4 towards Mars in the hope that a handful of pictures returned by the spacecraft might answer some age-old questions. Was there an ancient Martian civilization? Would there be any signs of life? So began the first step in a close examination of our neighboring planet.

Between Mariner 4 and Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 the United States has sent a fleet of robots to Mars with wildly varying degrees of success. Thanks to these versatile probes we now know almost as much about Mars on a global scale as we do about our own Earth.

In Mars The NASA Mission Reports the triumphs and tribulations of the American Mars program is gathered together in one place. Press Kits and Mission Reports from every Mars mission are collected together for the first time. Reading these documents presented here in chronological order gives a fascinating insight into how our understanding of the Red planet has grown over the past four decades. These robot voyages are the advance guard, scouting out the path for the day when men will launch a manned mission to Mars.

Includes: Windows CD-ROM featuring: The following complete NASA special publications: The Difficult Road To Mars - Mars Exploration In The Soviet Union, On Mars 1958-1978, Mariner Mars 1964 Final Project Report, Mariner 6 & 7 Pictures Of Mars, The New Mars The Discoveries Of Mariner 9, Viking Mission To Mars, Viking Orbiter Views Of Mars, EMPIRE - Background & Initial Dual-Planet Mission Studies NASA movies in MPG video format: Planet Mars, 19 Minutes To Earth and Mars - The Search Begins.

Also includes animations and a 360 Quicktime Panorama from Mars Pathfinder as well as hundreds of pictures from every NASA Mars mission.

 

 

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   The Smithsonian Book of Mars
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The Smithsonian Book of MarsFrom 1985 to 2000 Joseph Boyce provided scientific leadership to NASA as its Mars exploration program scientist. He has lived much of the history of the planet's exploration, and his findings have helped to determine what we know about Mars today. The Smithsonian Book of Mars is truly a firsthand account.

Boyce draws his clear explanations of Mars's atmosphere, climate, surface, and interior from the monumental findings of the different NASA missions. Beginning with Mariner 4 in 1964 and continuing through the 2001 Mars Odyssey probe, each spacecraft sent to Mars yielded fascinating new discoveries (how did those "canals" come to be?) and occasionally overturned earlier findings--especially when trying to answer NASA's ultimate question, "Are we alone?" The search for life on Mars seemed to be over after the 1976 Viking mission, but in 1997 scientists announced that they had found possible traces of ancient life in the ALH84001 Martian Meteorite, sparking furious debates in scientific journals. That controversy is precisely why Boyce finds Mars so endlessly fascinating--you just never know.

Boyce closes the book with a look at the bright future for additional Mars exploration and outlines the requirements for a manned mission. He spent many hours scouring the NASA archives and has included only the best pictures.

You may also be interested in:
A Traveler's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet

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   The Adventures of Sojourner : The Mission to Mars That Thrilled the World
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The Adventures of Sojourner : The Mission to MarsAn authoritative and exciting recounting of the Mars Pathfinder mission and the success of the Sojourner rover. The story begins with a brief but enlightening discussion of why scientists send missions to Mars and the successes and failures that occurred before the launch of Pathfinder in December of 1996. The book then follows the designing and building of Sojourner and describes her performance on Mars after landing on July 4, 1997. The rover did more than its designers and mission control experts had hoped for. For nearly three months Sojourner sent data about the rocks, soil, and weather on Mars, plus hundreds of color pictures. Readers follow this mission from its conception and the construction of the rover to the final bits of data sent from Mars.

The detailed explanations of the rover's construction, the launch and landing of the Pathfinder lander on Mars, and the work done by Sojourner are fascinating. Stunning photographs, the majority in color, add additional details and clarity to the lively text, which is easy to read but does not talk down to readers. A time line of Mars voyages, a chart comparing Earth and Mars, and web sites are also included.

This book provides enough information for reports, and may inspire students to pursue further research. An entertaining, factual, and immensely readable volume.

Also for younger readers:
Mission to Mars

 

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   Managing Martians
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Managing MartiansThe leader of the team that created the revolutionary Mars Sojourner robotic rover chronicles her trailblazing career in space exploration and tells the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the celebrated Mars Pathfinder mission.

Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner -- the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover -- was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet.

The event marked a milestone in space exploration -- no vehicle had ever before roamed the surface of another planet. But for Donna Shirley, the manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Exploration Program who headed the mostly male team that designed and built Sojourner, it marked a triumph of another kind. Since her childhood in Oklahoma, Shirley had dreamed of traveling to Mars, and, through Pathfinder, she did just that.

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Mars CD-ROMs
The CD-ROMs below are collections of official NASA files and documents. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work The CD-ROM sets use Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built in to provide a complete full-text index. This enables you to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command! These book-on-a-disc sets makes great reference works and educational tools.

 

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   Mars Exploration Rovers 2003-2004 (Three CD-ROM set)
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Mars Exploration Rovers 2003-2004
This comprehensive set of three CD-ROMs provides a thorough guide to the mission of the twin NASA Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, launched in 2003 for an early 2004 landing on the Red Planet. In addition to MER-A and MER-B, there is coverage of the Mars Express mission, including the Beagle 2 lander. This historic program is documented in NASA reports and mission images - there are over 385 images and 30 video clips included.

Every aspect of the program is covered:
* Preflight Tests, Launch and Cruise Phase * Landing Site maps and detailed photographs * Mission Objectives, Science Objectives * Entry, Descent, and Landing System * Science Instruments (Pancam, MINI-TES, Spectrometer, APXS, Magnets, Rock Abrasion Tool RAT, Microscopic Imager) * Spacecraft Description * Mission Timeline * Communications with Earth * MER Project Team Members

NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, were launched toward Mars in 2003 in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. The program seeks to take advantage of each launch opportunity to go to Mars, which comes around every 26 months as the planets move around the Sun.

Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. The spacecraft are targeted to sites that appear to have been affected by liquid water in the past.

 

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   Mars Pathfinder, NASA Sojourner Rover, the First Rover on Mars CD-ROM
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Mars Pathfinder, NASA Sojourner Rover, the First Rover on Mars
This comprehensive CD-ROM provides a thorough guide to the mission of Mars Pathfinder, which successfully placed the Sojourner rover on the Red Planet in 1997.

This historic mission is documented in NASA reports and mission images - there are over 2800 images and 38 video clips on this disc.

 

Every aspect of the amazing and exciting flight is covered:
* Preflight Tests, Launch and Cruise Phase * Landing Site * Mission Objectives, Science Objectives * Entry, Descent, and Landing System (a similar airbag system is being used in the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover program) * Rover Telecommunications * Control and Navigation * Power Subsystem * Sagan Memorial Station Images * SOL Data and Plots

 

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   Mars Global Surveyor Collection of Spectacular Mars Images (Two CD-ROM set)
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Mars Global Surveyor Collection of Spectacular Mars Images
This incredible set of two CD-ROMs provides a spectacular collection of Mars images captured by the camera aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Camera or MOC.

Hundreds of amazing scenes are presented in their original GIF and JPG formats, organized by feature type.

 

Here is just a tiny sample of the Martian images captured here:
* High Latitude Polygons * Dust Storms * Nigral Vallis * Meridiani Layers * North Polar Geology * Global Views * Gullies * Streaks * Nilosyrtis * Sand Dunes * Volcanoes * Atlas of Mars by MOC * Ganges Landslide * South Polar Cap * Defrosting Dunes * Mars Water Features

 

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   Mars 2004: Past, Present, and Future Robotic and Manned Missions (Four CD-ROM set)
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Mars 2004: Past, Present, and Future Robotic and Manned Missions to the Red Planet
This comprehensive set of four CD-ROMs provides a thoroughly revised and updated guide to past, present, and future robotic and manned missions to the Red Planet. The set incorporates the contents of best-selling Mars 2000, and adds significant material including over ten thousand pages, almost 2000 images and 87 video clips!

Missions and programs included in Mars 2004 include:

* Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Mars Images, including the August 2003 close encounter * NASA's Mars Exploration Program through 2003 * NASA Mars Exploration Program Gallery of Images * Manned Mission and Advanced Life Support material * NASA Mars Education material * Mars Global Surveyor MGS Wide Angle Map of Mars * Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit and Opportunity Mission - basic information * Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) 2005 mission * Investigative Reports on the Failures of Mars Polar Lander, Deep Space 2, and Mars Climate Orbiter Mission * Imager for Mars Pathfinder, 1997 rover mission * Phoenix Mars Scout Mission lander scheduled for launch in August 2007

Viking Orbiter views of Mars * NASA Center for Mars Exploration (embedded QuickTime movies) * Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Express Science Information * Martian Radiation and Environment Experiment aboard 2001 Odyssey * Spectacular Gallery of Mars Orbiter Camera (Mars Global Surveyor) Images in PDF format

 

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   Mars Exploration Superset One (12 CD-ROM Superset)
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Mars Exploration Superset One
This incredible compilation of five World Spaceflight News Mars exploration titles represents an outstanding value: purchased separately, these titles would cost over $180, so you save about 50% by purchasing this twelve CD-ROM collection! The scope of these titles is truly amazing, with over 50,000 pages of great material, 7800 images, and 280 video clips.

Titles included in this collection:

* Mars Exploration Rovers 2003-2004 - NASA Spirit and Opportunity Rovers (MER) and the Mars Express Beagle 2 Mission (Three CD-ROM Set)

* 2001 Mars Odyssey NASA Orbiter Mission (Two CD-ROM Set)

* Mars 2004 - Past, Present, and Future Robotic and Manned Missions to the Red Planet - Includes Mars 2000 Plus New Missions (Four CD-ROM Set)

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   Mars Exploration Superset Two (12 CD-ROM Superset)
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Mars Exploration Superset Two
This incredible compilation of four World Spaceflight News Mars exploration titles plus two additional WSN spaceflight titles represents an outstanding value: purchased separately, these titles would cost over $175, so you save about 50% by purchasing this twelve CD-ROM collection! The scope of these titles is truly amazing, with over 56,000 pages of great material, 5300 images, and 127 video clips.

Titles included in this collection:

* Mars Pathfinder - NASA Sojourner Rover - The First Rover on Mars 1997 - Sagan Memorial Station

* Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) - Spacecraft, Mission, Science, and Images (Four CD-ROM Set)

* 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image Collection - Thermal Emission Imaging System Images of Mars in PDF, JPG, TIF, and GIF Formats (Four CD-ROM Set)

* The "Face on Mars" - Mars Global Surveyor and Viking Images of Mystery Features including Cydonia, the "Face" and the "City"

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