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Index
Cover
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Series
Title
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Mars Fever
A quick-fire tour of the Red Planet
Seeing red
Chapter 2: The Wolf and the Woodpecker
What’s in a name?
Chapter 3: Marvin and the Spiders
An Earth-shattering ‘kaboom’!
Mr Fix-It and the man cave
Chapter 4: Death Stars and Little Green Martians
The canali saga
From the Big Three to Bradbury Landing
What would Mark Watney do?
Chapter 5: The Motions of Mars
Hail, children of Mars!
Chapter 6: The Massive Mars Problem
The three faces of Mars
Chapter 7: Phobos and Deimos
The birth of Phobos and Deimos
Chapter 8: The Draw of Cydonia
The Face on Mars
The power of pareidolia
Chapter 9: Life on Mars?
Extant, extinct, extreme
Of hitchhikers and hardy water bears
Chapter 10: Robot Cars on Mars
The Martian yellow storm of 1971
Enter the rovers
Why so curious?
The robots of the future
Chapter 11: Destination: Mars
Distance
Launch and propulsion
Landing
On the Martian surface
Contamination
More astronauts, more problems
Radiation
Microgravity
Ethics and funding
Chapter 12: The Future of the Red Planet
Going private
Terraforming: The birth of Earth 2.0
The death of Mars
Appendix: Chronological List of Mars Missions
Acknowledgements
Plates
Index
Copyright
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