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Wow, wow, wow, It's the Next Best Thing to Being There
I've had this one on my wish list and lucked out during the clearance sales, finding it at 50% off. It's touching to find this just after the news releases of solid evidence of ice found, too. No martains, =o)) and very peaceful. Hopefully, we'll have the common sense to stick with it's peaceful cultivation and the labors of a research haven.
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The Ultimate Trip
I know what you're thinking: Mars in 3D? Somebody took hokey '50s era ViewMaster Viewer technology to make 21st century digital shots of the Martian landscape look more ... awesome? Lame! But here's the thing: they aren't lame. Scanning the Martian terrain through the book's built in red/blue glasses (note to older viewers: put on your reading glasses first) somehow makes the Red Planet more familiar and even stranger. More familiar because suddenly you're noting the planet's earthlike hills and depressions, its stubby rocks and sheer cliffs ... stranger because they never look *quite* like the ones we see on Earth. So as much as you want to say, "Ha! Looks just like the the Grand Canyon or Death Valley or the Sahara Desert!" it never does. Indeed, the word "otherworldly" applies here. It's also cool to have someone who was actually part of the NASA team that sent these two camera-packed rovers to Mars explain their mission and their improbably long life on the Martian surface. (Built to work for only 90 Martian days, thanks in part to windstorms that blew the dust off their solar panels they rolled around taking pictures for 10 times that long.) All in all, Mars 3-D takes you on a truly awesome trip -- one you literally couldn't take any other way.
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