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MARS:

A Regional Areography

Readings

Midterm readings highlighted in red

Christine M. Rodrigue, Ph.D.

Department of Geography
California State University
Long Beach, CA 90840-1101
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Croswell, Ken. 2003.
Magnificent Mars. New York and other places: Free Press.
* Introduction (by 02/05/07)
* Mars through the centuries (by 02/05/07)
* Table 5 (by 02/12/07)
* Table 1: Planet data (by 02/12/07)
* The moons of Mars (by 02/19/07)
* Table 2: Moon data (by 02/19/07)
* Earth (by 02/26/07)
* Fire (by 02/26/07)
* Air (by 03/05/07)
* Table 3: Atmospheres (by 03/12/07)
* Water (by 03/19/07)
* Table 4: The life of Mars (by 03/26/07)
NASA. 2006.
Mars Exploration Program: Missions to Mars. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/
* Flybys (by 02/12/07) -- you'll need to click on links in blurb
* Orbiters (by 02/12/07)
* Landers and rovers (by 02/12/07)

            
Boyce, Joseph M. 2002.
The Smithsonian Book of Mars. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
* Chapter 2: Fascination with a red planet (by 02/05/07)
* Chapter 3: The difficult target (by 02/12/07)
* Chapter 1: An introduction to Mars (by 02/12/07)
* Chapter 8: The moons of Mars (by 02/19/07)
* Chapter 4: The interior of Mars (by 02/26/07)
* Chapter 5: The surface of Mars (by 02/26/07)
* Chapter 6: The atmosphere and climate (by 03/12/07)
* Chapter 7: Searching for Martians (by 03/26/07)
* Chapter 9: Dreams and schemes (by 04/09/07)

Weekly news reading:
* Mars Today http://www.marstoday.com/ (read 2-3 of the stories each week)

Book report:
* Read your novel (by 04/23/07)

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