Reviews Planetary Science

Destination Mars

New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle

By Science News

Get up to date on current projects that aim to visit the Red Planet, plus what scientists are learning from Mars-like places on Earth.

Prometheus Books, 2012, 290 p., $19

A version of this article appears in the June 30, 2012 issue of Science News.

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