Big Book of Mars. A million facts from pharaohs to mask. Hartzman M.

with this book, the distant Mars will become closer, and space will interest even those who never looked at the stars.

who would have thought that the obsession with a red planet began with an error of translation. When in 1877 Schiaparelli saw a network of lines on the surface of Mars, technical progress and a great desire to be not the only reasonable creatures in the Universe played a cruel joke with newspaper men, and the Italian natural canals turned into English man -made. And since then, people have been trying to find a reasonable life on a distant red planet and make contact with it.

Mark Hartzman studied hundreds of archival materials and collected the most interesting stories from the past and the present. Is there life on Mars how Tesla was going to “get through” to Martian, why suddenly the representatives of the Red Planet became “green men” and how toilets in spacecraft are designed to fly to Mars - you will learn all this even more by reading ” A large book of Mars. " And do not forget to share new knowledge with friends and parents: they will definitely hear some facts for the first time!