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Mars (Planet) -- Exploration

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• Exploration of Mars

• Viking Orbiter Views of Mars, by Viking Orbiter Imaging Team, ed. by Cary R. Spitzer (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dust in the Atmosphere of Mars and Its Impact on Human Exploration: Houston Texas, June 13-15, 2017 (workshop program and abstracts; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2017), ed. by Joel S. Levine, Daniel Winterhalter, and Russell L. Kerschmann (PDF files at USRA Houson Repository)
• First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers: January 24-25, 2001, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California (abstract volume; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2001) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
• Workshop on Water in Planetary Basalts: November 14-15, 2007, Houston, Texas (LPI contribution #1373; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2007), ed. by Justin Filberto (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
• Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, ed. by Wendell W. Mendell (page images at Harvard)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers: January 24-25, 2001, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California (abstract volume; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2001) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Pharaoh's Broker: Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1899), by Ellsworth Douglass (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour (London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895), by Charles Dixon, illust. by Arthur Layard
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Through Space to Mars, or, The Longest Journey on Record, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text)

• Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2001), by David S. F. Portree
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals," With an Alternative Explanation (1907), by Alfred Russel Wallace
  • illustrated HTML at wku.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Mars, by Percival Lowell
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mars and its Canals (New York and London: Macmillan, 1906), by Percival Lowell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mars as the Abode of Life (New York: Macmillan, 1908), by Percival Lowell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery, by William Sheehan (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Resources of Near-Earth Space (c1993), ed. by John S. Lewis, Mildred Shapley Matthews, and Mary L. Guerrieri (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Ninth International Conference on Mars: July 22-25, 2019, Pasadena, California (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2019) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• One Day on Mars (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), by Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB
• Von Neumann's War (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
• The Tomorrow People: A Science Fiction Novel (second printing; New York: Pyramid Books, 1962), by Judith Merril (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Edison's Conquest of Mars (book edition, 1947), by Garrett Putman Serviss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Synthetic Men of Mars (1940), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mars is My Destination: A Science-Fiction Adventure (New York: Pyramid Books, 1962), by Frank Belknap Long
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Fighting Man of Mars (1930-1931), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Memory of Mars (as published in Amazing Stories, December 1961), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mastermind of Mars (1927-1928), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Police Your Planet (c1956), by Lester Del Rey (Gutenberg text)
• The Crystal Crypt (as published in Planet Stories, January 1954), by Philip K. Dick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Melody from Mars (New York: Authors' International Pub. Co., 1924), by Violet Lilian Perkins and Archer Leslie Hood (multiple formats at Google)
• The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars: Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd (New York: Brentano's, 1903), by L. P. Gratacap, contrib. by G. V. Schiaparelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chessmen of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • illustrated HTML at erblist.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Decimon Huydas: A Romance of Mars (Rochester, NY: The Austin Pub. Co., 1906), by Sara Weiss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Edison's Conquest of Mars (serial and book editions), by Garrett Putman Serviss (page images at durendal.org)
• Edison's Conquest of Mars (serial edition, 1898), by Garrett Putman Serviss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Journey to Mars: The Wonderful World; Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1894), by Gustavus W. Pope (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• The Man from Mars: or, Service, for Service's Sake (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1910), by Henry Wallace Dowding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Plunge Into Space (first edition; London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1890), by Robert Cromie (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • illustrated HTML at erblist.com
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at CMU
• To Mars Via the Moon: An Astronomical Story (London: Seeley and Co., 1911), by Mark Wicks (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Trip to Mars (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909), by Fenton Ash, illust. by William H. C. Groome (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Zarlah the Martian (1909), by R. Norman Grisewood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Llana of Gathol (1941), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Bellona's Husband: A Romance (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1887), by Hudor Genone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gulliver of Mars, by Edwin Lester Arnold (Gutenberg text)
• Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (later editions titled Gulliver of Mars; London: S. C. Brown, Langham, and Co., 1905), by Edwin Lester Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swords of Mars (1936), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Gods of Mars (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1918), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illust. by Frank Earle Schoonover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gods of Mars (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1918), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gods of Mars (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• A Princess of Mars (based on the original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• A Princess of Mars (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1917), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
  • HTML at Fourmilab
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Warlord of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at CMU
• Warlord of Mars (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• Out of the Silent Planet (c1938), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.