Mars Crossing is a science fiction novel by Geoffrey A. Landis about an expedition to Mars, published by Tor Books in 2000. Geoffrey A Landis works as a scientist and writer of Science fiction. Tor Books is one of two Imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC based in New York City The novel was a nominee for the Nebula award, and won the Locus Award for best first novel in 2001. Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Locus Awards were established in 1971 and are presented to winners of Locus Magazine 's annual readers' poll
The characters in the novel are members of the third expedition to Mars, following the failures of earlier Brazilian and American expeditions. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The mission plan is based on the Mars Direct concept, where fuel is manufactured from the Martian atmosphere; the Brazilian Mars expedition selected a polar landing. Mars Direct is a proposal for a relatively low-cost manned mission to Mars with current rocket technology In Space exploration, In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU describes the proposed use of resources found or manufactured on other planetary bodies (the Moon Mars etc Structure Mars' atmosphere is composed of the following major divisions Lower Atmosphere This is a warm region affected by heat from airborne Dust and Planum Boreum ( Latin: "the northern plain" is the northern polar plain on Mars.
The following information comes from the book release notice[1]:
- Geoffrey A. Landis, a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center and a member of the Pathfinder Sojourner Rover team, has written a science fiction novel. Mars Crossing, just released from Tor Books, tells the story of an expedition to the red planet Mars. It has been called the most accurate novel about Mars exploration ever written, and has been praised by people such as Donna Shirley, former head of Mars exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who said "His landscape captures the feel of Mars as glimpsed from Pathfinder's landing site. Donna Shirley is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. . . an excellent, fast-paced read. " Analog magazine calls the book "an excellent job in a classic vein. " Charles Sheffield says "The characters are splendid, the scientific description is full and authentic, and the story has the epic quality of the greatest real-world adventures. Charles Sheffield ( June 25, 1935 &ndash November 2, 2002) was an English -born mathematician physicist and Science fiction " While Dr. Landis has previously won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for short fiction, Mars Crossing is his first novel.
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- ^ Space-talk forum, accessed June 15 2007
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