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The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars
This volume reviews all aspects of Mars atmospheric science from the surface to space, and from now and into the past.
The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars
Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.
Colony One Mars: A SciFi Thriller
How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself? All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long and destructive sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site. But, it's not long before they realize the colony is not as lifeless as everyone thought. Someone is still alive -- hiding out somewhere. Yet, before they can find the elusive colonist a strange illness starts to affect the crew. Pressure now mounts on B...
Dynamic Mars
Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of this terrestrial body. These changes raise questions about a decades-old paradigm, formed largely in the aftermath of very coarse Mariner-mission imagery in the 1960s, suggesting that much of the interesting geological activity on Mars occurred deep in its past, eons ago. The book includes discussions of (1) Mars’ ever-changing atmosphere and the impact of this on the planet’s surface and near-surface; (2) the possible involvement of water in relatively new, if not contemporary, gully-like flows a...
Apocalypse Mars
In Gene M. Cumm's Apocalypse Mars, America's best undertake a 15 year endeavor to save planet Mars from a cataclysmic event, ensuring the survival of our own world. America's unmanned spacecraft Viking III detects seismic tremors on the red planet. If left unchecked, the result could be catastrophic for both Mars and planet Earth. In order to keep the public panic level down, the government and NASA devise a secret program called Project Vulcan, to counter the Martian threat. Vulcan quickly develops the necessary spacecraft and performs a series of challenging spaceflights to determine if a team can meet the rigors of a Mars mission and the best course of action to stop Mars' spiraling inter...
Water and the Search for Life on Mars
Provides a comprehensive account of the recent ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’ Mars Exploration Rover missions. Relates how NASA/ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars, with the prevailing mood sometimes being optimistic and sometimes pessimistic. Details an account of the rationale for the tests for life carried out by the Viking missions in 1976, with an account of the debate over their results. A concise primer for readers wishing to ‘bone up’ when NASA next sends a lander explicitly to seek life on Mars. Discusses the nature of life on Mars in terms of the most primitive forms of life on Earth, and reviews the implications of there being life on both planets.
The Mars Migration
Tagline: A science fiction adventure involving two ordinary people, spheres from space, black holes, travel to a faraway place and the planet Mars. Full Synopsis: Two mysterious silver spheres arrive on the Earth. One crashes down in Selkirk, Canada. One in the West Midlands, UK, freezing time for twenty miles in every direction around itself as a means of protection. Amber (in Canada) and Daniel (UK) witness their landing, appearing to be meteorites, until closer inspection reveals the shiny futuristic ball. With all of their family and friends trapped and frozen in the protective field, why are they the only ones still able to move around? Drawn to the spheres, who have purposely designed ...
The Mars Family
Depicts the founding family of Mars, Inc. whose candy products include M&M's, Snickers, Milky Way, and Three Musketeers.
The Snows of Olympus
Mars - the Red Planet - is barren, and has almost no atmosphere and a temperature ranging from near-zero to 120 degrees below. No water flows, and there is no evidence that life has ever existed there. Yet, as Earth's nearest neighbour, it has always exerted a powerful hold on man's imagination: the astronomer Lowell thought he'd discovered canals, H.G. Wells speculated on the Red Planet's inhabitants' invasion of Earth, and many other science-fiction writers have used Mars as a setting.
