Mars :
Sheehan, William, 1954-
Mars : the lure of the red planet / William Sheehan & Stephen James O'Meara. - Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001. - 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pale red dot -- Lilac dawn -- Mars in the solar system -- Wanderers and wonderers -- untrackable star -- war with Mars -- swelling orb -- sails of imagination -- Mappers of strange seas -- less difficult and bloody conquest" -- Sidebar : a color-blind astronomer -- "Mars," excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell -- Lowell's Mars -- Grande Lunette -- Sidebar : the canals of Mars -- Mars of romance -- Invaders from Mars -- War of the worlds -- Marsfall -- Water, water anywhere? -- Woodstock Mars -- brave new world of Mariner 9 -- abode of life? -- Paradise lost? -- If stones could talk. pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The pt. 2. A 6. The 7. 8. "A 9. 10. La pt. 3. The 11. 12. pt. 4. 13. 14. 15. The pt. 5. The 16. 17.
157392900X (acid-free paper)
00067358
Mars (Planet)
QB641 / .S4838 2001
523.43
Mars : the lure of the red planet / William Sheehan & Stephen James O'Meara. - Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001. - 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pale red dot -- Lilac dawn -- Mars in the solar system -- Wanderers and wonderers -- untrackable star -- war with Mars -- swelling orb -- sails of imagination -- Mappers of strange seas -- less difficult and bloody conquest" -- Sidebar : a color-blind astronomer -- "Mars," excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell -- Lowell's Mars -- Grande Lunette -- Sidebar : the canals of Mars -- Mars of romance -- Invaders from Mars -- War of the worlds -- Marsfall -- Water, water anywhere? -- Woodstock Mars -- brave new world of Mariner 9 -- abode of life? -- Paradise lost? -- If stones could talk. pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The pt. 2. A 6. The 7. 8. "A 9. 10. La pt. 3. The 11. 12. pt. 4. 13. 14. 15. The pt. 5. The 16. 17.
157392900X (acid-free paper)
00067358
Mars (Planet)
QB641 / .S4838 2001
523.43
