Mars: Road Trip
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Publisher Description
Over 100 pages of carefully selected HD photos, multi-screen panoramas, movies, 3D models, interactive timelines, and more.
An iPad Exclusive. Includes latest Curiosity images from August 27, 2012.
This book includes views of Mars from 1659 to Present including: Huygens’ sketches, Green’s stunningly accurate 1877 map, Lowell’s fanciful canals, and many others, plus 50 years of Nasa orbital images from Mariner, Pathfinder, Surveyor, and Orbiter.
Road trips officially began in 1976 with the Viking landers.
The iPad is the perfect device to view the spectacular ground level high resolution panoramic mosaics of the Martian surface beginning with 1997 Sojourner (Note the family resemblance: Sojourner looks strikingly like a couple of iPads on wheels).
The Road Trip continues with the rovers Opportunity, Spirit, and Curiosity. Viewing these panoramas on the iPad is the closest you can get to your very own Mars Road Trip. Swipe through a 360° view, or pinch to zoom in for more detail.
Customer Reviews
A Short Story from the Preface
“Wake Up!” “Look up!” We were camping in a large open field. It was a hot night with clear skies, so we hadn’t bothered setting up the tents. “Whaaaa?”, I said, rubbing my eyes.
The night sky was filled with stars. More stars than I had ever seen. And some of them were moving. -- streaking across the sky like fireworks.
We watched for hours until dawn dimmed the show.
I was fifteen and stupid lucky. We had camped out on a clear night in an open field unwittingly at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on Wednesday August 13, 1969.
Three weeks earlier Neil Armstrong had walked on the Moon.
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In 1996 Robert Zubrin published the brilliant book, “The Case for Mars”. I was inspired to contact him and eventually help fund the founding of the Mars Society. Later, through my company, Flashline, I was able to act as a sponsor for the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station.
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Today I publish digital books. Here, thanks to the the brilliant work of the scientists at NASA I am proud to present “Mars: Road Trip”.
I hope it inspires you.
Charles Stack,
Publisher
Sideways, Inc.