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Tables of Contents for Mars
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
9
4
Acknowledgments
13
4
Part I. Pale Red Dot
Lilac Dawn
17
10
Mars in the Solar System
27
10
Wanderers and Wonderers
37
14
The Untrackable Star
51
14
The War with Mars
65
18
Part II. A Swelling Orb
The Sails of Imagination
83
12
Mappers of Strange Seas
95
8
``A Less Difficult and Bloody Conquest''
103
22
Sidebar: A Color-Blind Astronomer
116
8
``Mars,'' excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell
124
1
Lowell's Mars
125
24
La Grande Lunette
149
36
Sidebar: The Canals of Mars
176
9
Part III. The Mars of Romance
Invaders from Mars
185
12
War of the Worlds
197
20
Part IV. Marsfall
Water, Water---Anywhere?
217
18
Woodstock Mars
235
14
The Brave New World of Mariner 9
249
22
Part V. The Abode of Life?
Paradise Lost?
271
30
If Stones Could Talk
301
18
Epilogue: The Mars of Global Surveyor
319
7
Appendix A. A Square Old Yellow Book of Mars
326
13
Appendix B. The Colors of Mars
339
6
Appendix C. Exploring Mars with Your Telescope
345
22
Appendix D. Table of Data for the Planet Mars
367
2
Appendix E. The Satellites of Mars
369
2
Appendix F. Oppositions of Mars, 2001--2035
371
2
Appendix G. Most Favorable Oppositions of Mars, 3000 B.C.E. to 3000 C.E.
373
2
Notes
375
18
List of Illustrations
393
4
Index
397