This is Mars
By: Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, Xavier Barral ; collaborations by Sébastien Girard and Nicolas Mangold
Contributors: Rocard, Francis, author; Barral, Xavier, editor
Edition: First Aperture edition.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781597112581
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Pictorial works; Exploration; Space photography; Exploration of Mars (Planet)
Description: 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.--
Table of contents: title: Preface / Xavier Barral; title: Plates / edited by Xavier Barral and Sébastien Girard; title: HiRISE : a new view of Mars / Alfred S. McEwen; title: A geology of excess / Francis Rocard; title: The map of Mars / established according to the U.S. Geological Survey; title: A short history of observations of the planet Mars / compiled by Francis Rocard and Nathalie Chapuis; title: Geomorphology of the plates / Nicolas Mangold.