4th Rock from the Sun

An easy and thoroughly enjoyable read with a friendly chatty style, and it manages to pack in an awful lot of information. * Sky at Night *4th Rock from the Sun is more motivational manifesto than instruction manual … it serves to inspire the reader to root for this next potential milestone in human history. * Science *Nicky Jenner’s enthusiasm and humour are infectious, keeping the reader captivated even while she discusses serious subject. Even the least passionate of readers will fall in love with Mars by the end of the book. * Popular Astronomy *A fascinating debut … Jenner nimbly explores humanity’s fascination with Mars. * Shelf Life *A detailed yet bright and breezy guide to our most evocative planetary neighbour. Jenner’s book provides a whirlwind tour of the Red Planet’s past, present and possible future. This book is the essential guide to the little planet that looms largest in our collective imagination: Mars. – Ben Gilliland, science writer and author of How to Build a UniverseInformative, scientifically comprehensive and delightful to read. You’ll want to travel to Mars! – Antonella Nota, ESA Project Scientist and Mission Manager, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space TelescopeA colourful tapestry of old myths and prejudices, enthusiasm and disappointment, failures and successes, and stories of clever people and machines. Unfold it and you’ll see Mars much slower than before. – Dmitrij Titov, Project Scientist, ESA’s Mars Express missionI thought I knew everything there was to know about the Red Planet – I was wrong. A cleverly written and thoroughly interesting tour of all things martian. – Louisa Preston, UK Space Agency Aurora Research Fellow, and author of Goldilocks and the Water Bears

Nicky Jenner is a freelance writer and editor. Her news stories, features, interviews, and reviews have appeared in a variety of international popular science magazines, including New Scientist, Nature, BBC Sky at Night, Astronomy Now, The Times Eureka, and Physics World. Nicky is also a copywriter for the European Space Agency, European Southern Observatory (the organisation responsible for both the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the upcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which will be the world’s largest eye on the sky), and the Hubble Space Telescope, for which she was formerly the European press officer.