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Piers Bizony
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Addressing one of the hottest scientific debates of the decade, "The Exploration of Mars" offers a "informative and highly readable (book) . . . the clear and lucid style makes it suitable for anyone who wants an introduction to the search for life beyon
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World Spaceflight News
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THE ULTIMATE, AUTHORITATIVE, UP-TO-DATE CD-ROM SOURCE FOR MARS ENTHUSIASTS! This unique electronic book has an outstanding collection of the finest documents on Martian exploration. 126 documents - from colorful educational overviews to highly technical
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Donald Goldsmith, Daniel Goldsmith
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This is the first book to attempt a full account of NASA's August 1996 announcement that an ancient Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica may contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. Goldsmith treads carefully, knowing full well that this purporte
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political group
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Paul Raeburn, National Geographic
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On Mars the sky is pink, the polar caps are made of dry ice, the volcanoes are 17 miles high, and there is a little rock named Lozenge. Paul Raeburn's new book about Mars is full of fun facts like these. Published by the National Geographic Society, this
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Neil De Grasse Tyson, Neil De Grasse Tyson
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As charming as it is informed, this collection of answers about the universe presents a delightful tour of the galaxy via conversations with Kepler, Einstein, Doppler, Da Vinci, and other historical figures, as recounted by Merlin, a fictional visitor fr
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Bob Frissell, Brett Lilly
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A look at the phenomenon of sacred geometry focuses on the monuments discovered in 1976 on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, speculating on their meaning in terms of extraterrestrial life, aliens on Earth, and meditational rebirthing. Original.
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David M. Jinks
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The Monkey and The Tetrahedron is a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence supporting: * the existence of extraterrestrial artifacts * the reality of the "excess energy" phenomenon * the presence of unusual electromagnetic effects in g
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Price Pritchett, Brian Muirhead
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There's a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are in a competitive war trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less money. Actually, "improvement" per se isn't too ha
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Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx Bruce Rux
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By painstakingly following the long international paper trails that connect such apparently unrelated manifestations and occurrences as crop circles, alien abductions, extraterrestrial activity, and many other modern mysteries, Bruce Rux uncovers a consp
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Patrick Moore on Mars Patrick Moore
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Night falls over the equator and Phoebus rises from the west. It takes only 4 1/4 hours for this nearest moon to cross the sky--more than enough time for it to wax from new to full. This is the enduring charm of Mars: the more you learn about it, the
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Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Terraforming of Mars
(1961) Carl Sagan first proposed terraforming, wide-scale planetary engineering to alter the atmosphere and biosphere of another planet to make it suitable for Earth-based life; he chose the now unlikely candidate Venus.