Product Overview
In this extraordinary Baedekeraccessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing mars Global Surveyor spacecraftvisitors will encounter:
Plus: the face on Mars, the White Rock, the Canals of Xantheand the first possible evidence of an ancient Martian life-form.
- Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, rising three times as high as Mount Everest and covering an area the size of Missouri
- Tharsis Planitia, the high plains of Mars, with plains rising 29,000 feetwide 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 Xantheand the first possible evidence of an ancient Martian life-form.
