NASA Missions to Mars

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Piers Bizony is an experienced multimedia professional who has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA. He has also gained substantial experience within the film and television industries. The author of Quarto’s Moonshots, The Art of NASA, NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary, and other titles, Bizony also worked closely with the family of Stanley Kubrick, in conjunction with Warner Bros. and fine art publishers Taschen, on a large-format book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps toward the fourth planet to the 2021 landing of rover Perseverance and beyond.

Résumé
With authoritative text and NASA photography and artworks, NASA Missions to Mars tells the story of NASA's programs to explore the Red Planetfrom the first tentative flybys to the presentand offers a glimpse into the future of Mars exploration.

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CONTENTS
Preface
Piers Bizony
Introduction to Mars
A special essay by Andy Chaikin
1 RED PLANET VISIONS
Aliens, empires, and invasions
2 FIRST CONTACT
Discovering Mars as it really is
3 ROBOT EXPLORERS
Searching for life, past or present
4 HUMAN MARTIANS
Strategies to settle a new world
Fold-out map of Mars
Index
Acknowledgments & credits