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This is Mars

Title: This is Mars / Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, Xavier Barral ; collaborations by Sébastien Girard and Nicolas Mangold.
Author: McEwen, Alfred S.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Aperture, [2013]

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Description

269 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations; 36 cm

Summary

This Is Mars offers a previously unseen vision of the red planet. Located somewhere between art and science, the book brings together for the first time a series of panoramic images recently sent back by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Since its arrival in orbit in 2006, MRO and its HiRISE telescope have been mapping Mars's surface in a series of exceptionally detailed images that reveal all the beauty of this legendary planet. Conceived as a visual atlas, the book takes the reader on a fantastic voyage; plummeting into the breathtaking depths of the Velles Marineris canyons; floating over the black dunes of Noachis Terra; and soaring to the highest peak in our solar system, the Olympus Mons volcano. The search for traces of water also uncovers vast stretches of carbonic ice at the planet's poles.

Subject

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Contents

Preface / Xavier Barral -- Plates / edited by Xavier Barral and Sébastien Girard -- HiRISE : a new view of Mars / Alfred S. McEwen -- A geology of excess / Francis Rocard -- The map of Mars / established according to the U.S. Geological Survey -- A short history of observations of the planet Mars / compiled by Francis Rocard and Nathalie Chapuis -- Geomorphology of the plates / Nicolas Mangold.

Call Number

JSG 14-3

ISBN

9781597112581
1597112585

OCLC

859645342

Author

McEwen, Alfred S., author.

Title

This is Mars / Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, Xavier Barral ; collaborations by Sébastien Girard and Nicolas Mangold.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Aperture, [2013]

Edition

First Aperture edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Rocard, Francis, author.

Barral, Xavier, editor.

Research Call Number

JSG 14-3

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