Postcards from Mars : The First Photographer on the Red Planet Hardcover - 2006
by Bell, Jim
- Used
The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will marvel at this awesome, vivid, beautiful portrait of what it is like to take a stroll on Mars.
The most fantastic of all journeys the Spirit and Opportunity mobile robot missions to the surface of Mars produced over 150,000 astonishing photographs. While the images were made available on low-resolution computer screens as they were sent back across millions of space miles, no one until now has done the painstaking work of editing, cropping, and processing these massive (often larger than 100 megabytes) images.
The person to do it is Jim Bell, the scientist and photographer who led the photography team on this historic expedition. With his unique perspective, these photographs take us from the brave launches of these robots, to the alien landscape they discovered and the mysteries of the planet that they have helped to solve.
Over 150 lavish full-color-process prints bring the colors and textures of Mars to vivid life on the page. Four of the most impressive pictures are presented in their entirety as gatefold images which extend over three feet in width providing a view of the surface of another planet unprecedented in its detail and clarity. Postcards from Mars is the perfect gift to give readers who have their feet on the ground and their eyes on the heavens.
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- Title Postcards from Mars : The First Photographer on the Red Planet
- Author Bell, Jim
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 196
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, NY
- Date November 16, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 626767-6
- ISBN 9780525949855 / 0525949852
- Weight 3.71 lbs (1.68 kg)
- Dimensions 11.74 x 11.82 x 0.9 in (29.82 x 30.02 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Mars (Planet)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006016848
- Dewey Decimal Code 559.923
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