How to Survive on Mars

"In this stunning new release, the reader is taken on a journey to the Red Planet to discover natural wonders like ancient polar ice caps, the highest volcano in the solar system and a 45-kilometre-wide impact crater that was once a Martian lake. Led by astronomer and member of the National Space Society of Australia, scientists, engineers, archaeologists, ethicists and science-fiction writers have joined together to explore the planet, consider the challenges and offer solutions so those with an interest and the dream can dream on." * The Bottom Shelf *
"Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway has a PhD in astrophysics, and is a science educator. In this smartly produced book she introduces the only other solid planet in our solar system, and explores for us some of the problems humans will have to face if they are to spend time on that planet almost without an atmosphere, very little gravity, and possibly not much more than red rocks on it. With superb full coloured graphics, the reader learns how the red planet formed, how it lost most of its atmosphere, what it’s made of, whether there might be enough water to sustain visitors from earth, how enormous are the dust storms on Mars, and perhaps most interestingly why we want to go there, and how we might feed and warm ourselves once we’re there." -- Kevin Brophy * CBCA Reading Time *