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Welcome to Mars : making a home on the Red Planet / Buzz Aldrin, with Marianne J. Dyson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: National Geographic kidsPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2015]Description: 96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781426322068 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1426322062 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781426322075 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper)
  • 1426322070 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Why Mars? -- All aboard! -- Off to Mars -- Approaching Mars -- Riches of Mars -- Martian home -- Conclusion: Green Mars -- Afterword -- Further study -- Glossary.
Awards:
  • A Junior Library Guild selection
Summary: The Apollo 11 astronaut invites young people to evaluate Mars as a potential planet for human colonization, and describes what Mars residents might experience while traveling to and living on the Red Planet.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 523.43 A365 Available 33111008124121
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 523.43 A365 Available 33111008087062
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Space is still the final frontier and Mars continues to make news and attract generations of young people. In this fascinating book, hero-astronaut Buzz Aldrin challenges curious kids to think about Mars as not just a faraway red planet but as a possible future home for Earthlings!

What will your new home be like? How will you get there? What will you eat for breakfast? Find out what life might be like far, far from Earth as you navigate your way through this fun and fascinating book. What kid wouldn't want to blast off with him on this (literary) journey!

The Apollo 11 astronaut invites young people to evaluate Mars as a potential planet for human colonization, and describes what Mars residents might experience while traveling to and living on the Red Planet.

Includes bibliographical references (page 91) and index.

Introduction: Why Mars? -- All aboard! -- Off to Mars -- Approaching Mars -- Riches of Mars -- Martian home -- Conclusion: Green Mars -- Afterword -- Further study -- Glossary.

Grades 4-8.

A Junior Library Guild selection

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