Discovering Mars: The Ultimate Guide to the Red Planet

Discovering Mars is a comprehensive scientific guide to the red planet, featuring stunning illustrations and NASA imagery. Written by Alexandra Lefort, an avid traveler and PhD in planetary sciences, the book explores Mars' geography, atmosphere, moons, spiders, and potential for life. Lefort is also a self-taught artist who has collaborated with paleoartist Julius Csotonyi on several projects.

Format: Hardback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 24 August 2022
Publisher: Applesauce Press

Did you know that Mars is twice the size of Earth's moon? Or that it is home to the Valles Marineris--the largest canyon in our solar system?

Blast off and explore the surface of the fourth planet from the Sun with Discovering Mars. This book is a complete scientific guide to Mars, including information on geography, atmosphere, unique landscape features, and more.

Discover Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos, learn all about unique polar spiders, and investigate past, present, and future life on Mars. Incredible illustrations and NASA imagery of Mars's surface, craters, and volcanoes bring outer space right to your fingertips and let you explore the red planet like never before.

Learn all about past missions to Mars, and take a sneak peek into future projects from NASA and beyond.

An avid traveler, Alexandra Lefort has lived in France, Scotland, Switzerland, and the U.S., and has now made her home in Vancouver, B.C.

Passionate about exploration, she completed a PhD in planetary sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland, focusing her academic research on the investigations of Martian water, with a particular interest for the question of habitability and extraterrestrial life.

This interest in the origin and development of life also translates into artistic representation of terrestrial lifeforms and environments.

A self-taught artist, her favorite media are photography, with a portfolio which includes wildlife portraits, macro photography, landscapes, and traditional drawing and painting, including graphite, pastels, acrylics, and digital art.

She has designed several coins for the Royal Canadian Mint and has collaborated with paleoartist Julius Csotonyi on realistic depictions of prehistory.

Weight: 953g
Dimension: 277 x 310 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781646432387