In this extraordinary Baedeker--accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing mars Global Surveyor spacecraft--visitors will encounter: Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, rising three times as high as Mount Everest and covering an area the size of MissouriTharsis Planitia, the "high plains of Mars," with plains rising 29,000 feet--wide enough to cover Europe.Valles Marineris, an equatorial canyon so vast that America's Grand Canyon would be a mere tributary.
Plus the "face" on Mars, the White Rock, the "Canals" of Xanthe--and the first possible evidence of an ancient Martian life-form.
- ISBN10 0761126066
- ISBN13 9780761126065
- Publish Date 21 August 2003
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Workman Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 450
- Language English