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Postcards from Mars
Jim Bell
The First Photographer on the Red Planet
Dutton Adult
November 2006
On Sale: November 16, 2006
208 pages
ISBN: 0525949852
EAN: 9780525949855
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet
has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar
beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will
marvel at this awesome, vivid, beautiful portrait of what it
is like to take a stroll on Mars. The most fantastic of all journeys—the Spirit and
Opportunity mobile robot missions to the surface of
Mars—produced over 150,000 astonishing photographs. While
the images were made available on low-resolution computer
screens as they were sent back across millions of space
miles, no one until now has done the painstaking work of
editing, cropping, and processing these massive (often
larger than 100 megabytes) images. The person to do it is Jim Bell, the scientist and
photographer who led the photography team on this historic
expedition. With his unique perspective, these photographs
take us from the brave launches of these robots, to the
alien landscape they discovered and the mysteries of the
planet that they have helped to solve. Over 150 lavish full-color-process prints bring the colors
and textures of Mars to vivid life on the page. Four of the
most impressive pictures are presented in their entirety as
gatefold images— which extend over three feet in
width—providing a view of the surface of another planet
unprecedented in its detail and clarity. Postcards from Mars
is the perfect gift to give readers who have their feet on
the ground and their eyes on the heavens.
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