Mars

For anyone with a love of astrophotography, space exploration, or simply the beauty of the unknown, this book is an essential addition to any collection. * Digital Camera World *
A must-have resource for anyone wishing to explore the fourth planet from the Sun. * Sky Arte *
Works of art created by nature, photos from the red planet in Mars. Photographs from the NASA Archives: a compilation of impressive images - to revel in and discover. * Kulturzeit, 3sat *
As you have never seen Mars before: A new illustrated book brings together images from six decades of Mars exploration. On 340 pages, Mars combines a wealth of spectacular images of the planet. * GEO *
Mars is clearly the best planet, a red fire in the night sky. Here it is fabulously revealed. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *
This new book celebrates the missions that have enriched our understanding of Mars and looks to a future where humans explore the Red Planet. * New Scientist *
Mars must be the most imagined, most described, but never visited landscape in the universe. It holds onto its secrets stubbornly remaining almost within our grasp but tantalizingly out of reach. And still, it continues to draw our attention, an object of lifelong fascination leading some onto explore. More than that: to hope and to dream for reasons that are as ancient as the landscapes themselves. * BBC *
Mars is the best planet because Mars is a mirror. We look to it and we see ourselves-our past and possibility, and, with some imagination, our future. * The Atlantic *

Emily Lakdawalla is a planetary scientist, freelance science writer, educator, space artist, and namesake of asteroid (274860) Emilylakdawalla. Her first book, The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job, was published in 2018.

James L. Green, PhD, is NASA’s Chief Scientist. In a more than four decades-long career at the agency, where he also served as director of NASA’s planetary program, he has led more than a dozen successful missions, including the landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars, the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, and the MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury.

Margaret Weitekamp, PhD, is the chair of the Space History department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, where she curates the social and cultural history of spaceflight collection. In additional to her scholarly publishing, she also wrote an award-winning children’s book about Pluto.

Nikki Giovanni is a writer, educator, activist, and one of America’s most prominent poetic voices. She has published numerous collections of poems, essays, and children’s books, including Bicycles: Love Poems and Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech.

Rob Manning is Chief Engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as well as Chief Engineer for JPL’s Engineering and Science Directorate. He has been designing, testing, and operating robotic spacecraft for 40 years including Galileo to Jupiter, Cassini to Saturn, and Magellan to Venus, and many Mars missions.

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