mars (planet)

Presents basic information about Mars. Explores the geography of Mars and includes color photographs taken by Pathfinder and Sojourner. Explores whether or not there is life on Mars and also contains information about Mars's orbit and moons.

Briefly describes the exploration of the planet Mars, concentrating on the landing of the two Viking spacecraft and the data they have beamed back to earth.

The debate over whether fossilized traces of microbial life were found in meteorites from Mars is reexamined in this informative and highly readable account with 16 pages of new photographs.

Surveys what is now known about the planet Mars, discussing its surface features, moons, polar ice caps, and the exploratory missions that helped provide this information.

Sparta, the first product of advanced biotech engineering, risks her life and identity to solve the mystery of who stole a plaque found on Mars--the only real evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Captain Fact and Knowledge travel to Mars in order to save a monkey who runs out of bananas. Contains some facts about space flight and the planets.

Dr. Lauren Wagner heads a space mission to Mars, where ten years earlier the Russians went but never came back.

The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the world they had left.

Provides information about Mars as the reader joins a hypothetical three year space exploration of the planet costing fifty billion dollars and requiring fifty-four thousand pounds of food, water, and oxygen.