Ulf von Rauchhaupt : The ninth continent - The scientific exploration of Mars, Fischer paperbacks Bd.17864 2010th 287 p. 19 cm. 218g. Binding: Paperback, Publisher: Fischer (note), Frankfurt Stock No: 2905, ISBN: 978 359 617 864
The Red Planet Mars had always held a special fascination for the out at the sky looking people. Thanks to its intense red color, it became in many cultures, for god of war and suggested even in the enlightened centuries the imagination of his viewers. For a long time he appeared as the only inhabited planet in the solar system where Earth hostile creatures just waiting to pounce on the weak earthlings. Mars Venus was opposite the ever more sophisticated than the planet: As the Venus of the Earth should be the same in its early days, it had to be people on Mars. The story of the Martian channels revealed in the 19th Century this belief. First the spacecraft of the 60s of last century brought the realization that neither Venus nor Mars harbored life as on Earth. conquer
These ideas and the serious efforts of Mars by space probes, from the author, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (1993-1998), then Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science and since 2001 editor in the FAZ, worked up in detail and knowledgeable. He described the plans Wernher von Braun in the 50s as well as the many and varied successful NASA missions to this day.
The following describes the different Mars landscapes on the two very different hemispheres aerological of the planet, the analysis of the thin Martian air, and the investigation of his lying around on the surface rocks. Of course can not be absent, the question of water on Mars, which is discussed on a scientific basis.
Possible microbial life on Mars, doubts about some of the previously published results (eg, the traces during the Viking missions), the insights, thanks to the Mars meteorite discovery ALH 84 001 in the Antarctic, but also the problem of how far underground bacteria could be carried out with space probes, content of the 7th Chapter.
In the 8th it comes, could work under what conditions and whether people ever live on Mars research, and. The thoughts about terraforming be demolished.
It was great fun, with the help of this pocket guide to the latest version of the very dynamic and always bring surprises good Mars research and the other a deep insight into the history of ideas and real conquests of our neighboring planet to win. So if you are just interested in Mars and concise information and clear on a scientific basis want to help yourself, you will not regret it!
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