CD-ROM and Book. The Red Planet has been a beacon to every race of
mankind since the dawn of history. Today Mars stands as a symbol of
the high frontier the next logical step in our exploration of the
universe around us. In 1964 the United States of America launched
Mariner 4 towards Mars in the hope that a handful of pictures
returned by the spacecraft might answer some age-old questions. Was
there an ancient Martian civilisation? Would there be any signs of
life? So began the first step in a close examination of our
neighbouring planet. Between Mariner 4 and Mars Global Surveyor in
1988 the United States has sent a fleet of robots to Mars with
wildly varying degrees of success. Thanks to these versatile probes
we now know almost as much about Mars on a global scale as we do
about our own Earth. In this book the triumphs and tribulations of
the American Mars programme is gathered together in one place.
Press Kits and Mission Reports from every Mars mission are
collected together for the first time. Reading these documents
presented here in chronological order gives a fascinating insight
into how our understanding of the Red Planet has grown over the
past four decades.;These robot voyages are the advance guard,
scouting out the path for the day when men will launch a manned
mission to Mars.
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