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201) Birthday on Mars!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mars is one of our closest neighbors, and a NASA robot named Curiosity is in charge of exploring the surface. Take a journey across a new planet along with Curiosity." -- back cover.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 668 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ender's game: A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the future of...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Nathan Bright had it all: an awesome girlfriend, a kick-ass dog, and a job as the #1 weatherman on terraformed Mars. But when he's accused of carrying out the worst terrorist attack in human history--an event that killed nearly everyone on Earth--Nathan becomes the target of a manhunt that spans the galaxy. Can Nathan truly be responsible for such a horrific crime? And why can't he remember?--Back cover.
Author
Series
Trish Trash volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
53 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. She is so good that even though she is too young to join a team, and her intern contract forbids her to skate with them, her coach has her playing scrimmages. The indigenous Martian she's hiding in her garage, named Qiqi, has given her roller skates that can be used outside in the harsh Martian landscape. This cross-training is paying off well. But...
Author
Series
Billionaire's Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of how an unlikely leader helped inspire a team of rocket scientists to achieve the near impossible: landing a two-thousand pound rover on Mars. Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and nobody knows more about leading rocket scientists to unlikely breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the phase lead and development manager for EDL (entry, descent and landing) of the Curiosity rover...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility-- and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
208) Mars One
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he's leaving behind to do so"--
209) Tekis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
73 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Ada, Oli y Kat son las Tekis, tres fantásticas inventoras. Acompañadas de la robot Algoritmo, vivirán grandes aventuras. El día en que Purpurina desaparece, comienza un fabuloso viaje que las llevará, nada más y nada menos que... ¡a Marte!"--
"The day Purpurina disappears, Ada, Oli and Kat are thrust on a journey to Mars that will test their courage and powers of invention! Will they be able to save Purpurina in time? Join the Tekis, Ada,...
Author
Series
Trish Trash volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
55 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.
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