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Morden, Simon, author.
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Astrogeology -- Popular works.
Mars (Planet) -- Popular works.
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The red planet : a natural history of Mars / Simon Morden, PhD.
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Morden, Simon, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Subjects
Astrogeology -- Popular works.
Mars (Planet) -- Popular works.
ISBN:
9781639361755 (hardcover)
1639361758 (hardcover)
Description:
x, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Contents:
Enter, stage left -- Part one: Explaining Mars. Dawn on Mars -- Mars as an unreliable narrator -- Why is Mars so different? -- Mapping Mars -- Part two: Before the beginning. The giant molecular cloud -- Accretion -- Planetary embryos -- Part three: Early Mars. Mars at the start -- Planetary meeting -- Crater formation -- Crater counting -- Martian meteorites -- The great dichotomy -- The great dichotomy convection theory -- The great dichotomy impact theory -- Phobos and Deimos -- The early Martian atmosphere -- Part four: The Noachian. Sailing on an endless sea -- The Hellas impact -- The start of the Noachian -- Obliquity and eccentricity -- Introducing Tharsis -- We need to talk about water -- The northern ocean -- Life -- Tharsis rises -- Lake Eridania -- Part five: The Hesperian. The Hesperian climate change -- The beginning of the cryosphere -- Valles and chaoses -- Here are giants -- Valles Marineris -- Olympus Mons -- Elysium -- The Medusae Fossae formation -- True polar wander -- The ice caps -- Part six: The Amazonian. A world of ice -- In the Amazonian -- The Amazonian climate -- Equatorial ice -- High latitude ice -- The polar regions -- The dust cycle -- Amazonian volcanism -- Part seven: The future. What can we make of Mars? -- We are the Martians.
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"The history of Mars is drawn not just on its surface, but also down into its broken bedrock and up into its frigid air. Most of all, it stretches back into deep time, where the trackways of the past have been obliterated and there is no discernible trace of where they started from or how they travelled, only where they ended up. From the planet's formation 4.5 billion years ago, through eras that featured cataclysmic meteor strikes, explosive volcanoes and a vast ocean that spanned the entire upper hemisphere, to the long, frozen ages that saw its atmosphere steadily thinning and leaking away into space, planetary geologist Dr. Simon Morden presents a tantalizing vision of our nearest neighbour, its dramatic history, and astonishing present."--Dust jacket.
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A Junior Library Guild selection.
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