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In December 1996, NASA''s Pathfinder was laun ched on a 310 million mile course that heralded a new era of space exploration. This book showcases the most dramatic im ages from the most recent Pathfinder mission '
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On Mars the sky is pink, the polar caps are made of dry ice, the volcanoes are 17 miles high, and there is a little rock named Lozenge. Paul Raeburn's new book about Mars is full of fun facts like these. Published by the National Geographic Society, this volume also features 125 striking photographs of the planet's surface, many of them from the 1997 Pathfinder mission. A pair of 3-D glasses are tucked into the cover so that the foldout "Marscape" in the middle of the book practically leaps off the page. Raeburn chronicles the history of humankind's fascination with Mars, presenting the theories of ancient astronomers and the fantasies spun by science fiction writers. When one 19th-century scientist thought he spotted canals on the surface of the planet, many people jumped to the conclusion that there was water on Mars and that there must be life on the planet. This hopeful idea flourished for many decades, until the first pictures from the Mariner expedition of 1965 revealed that the planet is arid and pocked with craters like Earth's own moon. The Viking and Pathfinder missions gathered more data about the planet, photographing its volcanoes and enormous canyons, offering glimmers of hope to the life-on-Mars contingent. Raeburn describes each Mars mission, profiles several of the major players in Mars research, and discusses future exploration of the planet. Raeburn's account of human exploration of the red planet is fascinating, but the pictures are the best thing about this book. Lozenge isn't much to look at, but that 17-mile-high volcano is, and so is the rest of the fourth planet's undulating, dusty terrain. --Jill Marquis
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1997年の小さなローバーMars Pathfinderの火星探査の成功、移動距離は短かったですが、将来の移動ロボットによる惑星探査に大きな期待を抱かせてくれました。そして2004年に火星に降り立ったSpirit, Opportunityという2台のローバーが予定をはるかに超える5年以上も探査活動を行っていることに驚かされています。
本書はこのMars Pathfinder、そしてViking以来の新しい火星の詳細なイメージを私たちに送ってくれたMars Global Surveyorを中心にミッションの概要、探査の概要を紹介してくれます。また、火星探査の歴史や将来構想（本書の発行当時の）についても紹介してくれます。
本レビューの10年以上前に発行された本ですが、現在でも収録された写真を見るとあの時のワクワク感が思い出されます。なお、収録された3D写真のために眼鏡が付録としてつけられています。
<< Contents >>
Foreword
Introduction
Why do we dream of Mars?
The first missions
Getting to know Mars: The Viking missions
Pathfinder: A new era in Mars exploration
Is there life on Mars?
Continuting the Mars Journey
Index
Credits & Acknowledgements & Additional readings
本書はこのMars Pathfinder、そしてViking以来の新しい火星の詳細なイメージを私たちに送ってくれたMars Global Surveyorを中心にミッションの概要、探査の概要を紹介してくれます。また、火星探査の歴史や将来構想（本書の発行当時の）についても紹介してくれます。
本レビューの10年以上前に発行された本ですが、現在でも収録された写真を見るとあの時のワクワク感が思い出されます。なお、収録された3D写真のために眼鏡が付録としてつけられています。
<< Contents >>
Foreword
Introduction
Why do we dream of Mars?
The first missions
Getting to know Mars: The Viking missions
Pathfinder: A new era in Mars exploration
Is there life on Mars?
Continuting the Mars Journey
Index
Credits & Acknowledgements & Additional readings
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12 人中、12人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The best book on Mars exploration in over five years!
1998/11/18
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When I saw the large size of the book I was expecting a nice coffee table/waiting room book for readers to glance through. However, with Matt Golombek as a contributor I knew that some serious science would be on the agenda. After reading the book, I was amazed at how the author(s) weaved a fascinating narrative together with solid science. This book is for the serious student as well as the public at large.
6 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The most spectacular photographs I've ever seen.
1998/11/2
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The photographs of Mars are spectacular, and there are a lot of them. The pictures clearly show how water -- oceans of it -- etched canyons six times deeper than the Grand Canyon. The pictures of Olympus Mons illustrate where the volcanic sediments in the river banks came from. The description of "on the fly" programming of the 41 explosive bolts necessary to land Pathfinder was touching, dramatic and fascinating. The book provides a breathtaking story of interplanetary scientific adventure. Edward B. Flowers, St. John's University
9 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Wonderful introduction to our cold and dry neighbor
2001/8/18
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This outstanding book is published by National Geographic and it shows! Enough colorful pictures to qualify as a coffee table book but plenty of interesting text to work through as well. The book is written for the "educated layman", not too technical but at the same time assuming a basic understanding of science. The ratio of text to pictures is similar to the National Geographic magazine, perhaps a bit heavier on the text.
Raeburn begins with a summary of the different beliefs held about Mars before the spacecraft era, including the widely held one initiated by Lowell about canals constructed by intelligent Martians. Raeburn spends the bulk of the book taking us through NASA's various missions to Mars: Mariner, Viking, Pathfinder, and Global Surveyor. The book was published in 1998 and hence only provides a "preview" of the Global Surveyor findings. Today, of course, we have a complete global map of Mars in astonishing detail.
Also, Raeburn optimistically looks forward to NASA's continuing "faster, cheaper, better" program of Mars exploration. We already know that the orbiter and polar lander failed, so let's hope that the craft to be launched this year fare better. Raeburn also notes that in 2005 a craft will be launched that should bring rocks from Mars back to Earth!
Overall, definitely worth the price of entry for the pictures alone. There are even some neat 3-D pictures inside and the book provides 3-D glasses!
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