François Forget

François Costard

Philippe Lognonné

This book gives a new insight of Mars by adopting an original outline based on history rather than on subtopic (atmosphere, surface, interior). It focuses on the past and present evolution of Mars and also incorporates all the recent results from the space missions of Mars Express, Spirit and Opportunity. This book goes to the heart of current planetological research, and illustrates it with many beautiful images. The authors describe the magnificent scenery on Mars. The authors introduce a new world and reveal the workings of the planet Mars, and they describe current research to prepare for future missions to Mars.

Story of Another World

Planet Mars

Robert M. Haberle

Richard W. Zurek

R. Todd Clancy

Michael D. Smith

Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.

The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars

Comme la Terre, Mars est un monde. Un monde complexe, immense, et marqué par une longue histoire. Pour le prouver, ce livre plonge au cœur de la recherche actuelle en "planétologie", habitée de grands doutes et de quelques certitudes. De la "naissance» de Mars il y a 4,5 milliards d'années à nos jours, c'est l'histoire d'une planète changeante, régie par des processus physiques parfois sans équivalents sur Terre, que les auteurs racontent. Cette nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée, convie le lecteur à un voyage abondamment illustré dans l'univers fascinant de la planète rouge, tel que l'ont récemment redécouvert Mars Express, la première sonde européenne autour de Mars, et les Mars Exploration rovers, ces infatigables robots-géologues de la NASA.

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