Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101618 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Synopsis
This work takes the reader on a fantastic voyage - strolling on mars with the spirit and opportunity robot missions. The cream of the astonishing crop of photographs brought back by the Spirit and Opportunity Mars missions - revealed in their true glory for the first time. The most fantastic of all journeys - the Spirit and Opportunity robot missions to the surface of Mars - produced over 150 000 astonishing photographs. While these images were made available on low-resolution computer screens as they were beamed across millions of space miles, no-one had done the painstaking work of editing, cropping and processing the massive pictures for a true photographic form. Until now. Jim Bell, the scientist and photographer who controlled the image team on the Roving Mars missions, has fully processed 150 of the best images they generated. With his unique perspective, these photographs take readers from the launch of the robots to the alien landscape they discovered and the mysteries of the Red Planet they have helped to solve.

Four of the most impressive pictures are presented in their entirety as gatefold images extending over three feet in width - providing a view of the surface of another planet unprecedented in detail and clarity. It is an unimaginable opportunity to walk the surface of another world.

Customer Reviews

Nicely done but repetitive.
Firstly, I'm sure that one of these days Amazon will send me and undamaged book, just for once!
This one had a creased dust jacket. Why manufactuters don't shrink wrap expensive books is beyond
me and Amazon, call yourself a book retailer? Then up your warehouse handling quality please!
Anyway, the book is large, well printed and relatively interesting. The history of the 3 mobile
NASA martian rovers is explained in extensive and lengthy detail and the images accompany the test.
The images are impressive, another world, but to be honest, after the 40th view of a boulder field
one starts to long for a lunar crater or Saturn's rings. Mars is fundamentally a rather tedious
place!
Several of the images are triple sized panoramas with fold out pages. That's nice but it would of been
nicer still if the manufacturer had managed to fold my inserts without bending and creasing them.
Hopeless.