Mars : the lure of the red planet / William Sheehan & Stephen James O'Meara.
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TextPublication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.Description: 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 157392900X (acid-free paper)
- 523.43 21
- QB641 .S4838 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Pale red dot -- 1. Lilac dawn -- 2. Mars in the solar system -- 3. Wanderers and wonderers -- 4. The untrackable star -- 5. The war with Mars -- pt. 2. A swelling orb -- 6. The sails of imagination -- 7. Mappers of strange seas -- 8. "A less difficult and bloody conquest" -- Sidebar : a color-blind astronomer -- "Mars," excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell -- 9. Lowell's Mars -- 10. La Grande Lunette -- Sidebar : the canals of Mars -- pt. 3. The Mars of romance -- 11. Invaders from Mars -- 12. War of the worlds -- pt. 4. Marsfall -- 13. Water, water anywhere? -- 14. Woodstock Mars -- 15. The brave new world of Mariner 9 -- pt. 5. The abode of life? -- 16. Paradise lost? -- 17. If stones could talk.
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