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Revision as of 19:35, 6 September 2019

The intent of this list is to provide a recommended list of non-fiction books that will provide an introduction to the high level hierarchy of categories in Marspedia: Mars Planetary Science, Mars Spacecraft/Robotic Missions, Mars Human Exploration (plans), Mars Human Settement (plans), Mars Outreach, and Mars Arts and Literature.

To that end there are several references[1][2][3] that have been used to establish the table of recommended books that appear on this page.

Title Author Year ISBN # Comment
The Atlas of Mars: Mapping Its Geography and Geology Kenneth S. Coles, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Philip R. Christensen 2019 978-1107036291 The most current atlas of Mars. Map quadrangles are at 1:10,000,000 scale
Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet Donald Rapp 2008 978-3642092015 Requirements for human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective
Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet Richard J. Soare, Susan J. Conway, Stephen M. Clifford 2018 978-0128130186 Explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of Mars
Next Stop Mars: The Why, How, and When of Human Missions Giancarlo Genta 2017 978-3319443102 Historic and future human mission plans and design
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books) Stephen Petranek 2015 978-1476784762 Making the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity
Mars Giles Sparrow 2015 978-1623658564 A focus on images from Curiosity rover
Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet Steven Squyres 2005 978-1623658564 A chief scientist's view of the planning and execution of the Spirit and Opportunity missions to Mars
Magnificent Mars Ken Croswell 2003 978-0743226011 a synthesis of the latest research on Mars, accompanied with full-color images
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer Rob Manning, William L. Simon 2014 978-1588344731 A behind-the-scenes account as told by the Chief Engineer
Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet Jim Bell 2010 978-0452296749 from the photography team lead on the Spirit and Opportunity rover missions
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David 2015 978-1426214684 This Moon astronaut presents his vision for near future space exploratoin
The Rock from Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets Kathy Sawyer 2006 978-1400060108 The story of ALH84001, the Mars meteorite found in Antarctica
Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet Leonard David 2016 978-1426217586 A companion piece to a National Geographic series
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: Volume 1, 1953 to 2003: The First Five Decades Phillip J. Stooke 2012 978-0521765534 Atlas covering the first five decades of the exploration of Mars
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: Volume 2, 2004 to 2014: From Spirit to Curiosity Phillip J. Stooke 2016 978-1107030930 2nd volume of atlas  that continues the story of Mars exploration through 2016
Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery Scott Hubbard 2012 978-0816528967 A NASA manage r"follows the water" in orbit and on Mars' surface in a series of missions
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must Robert Zubrin 2011 978-1451608113 Revised edition of the classic (1996) book on the Mars Direct plan to explore and settle Mars
Colonizing Mars The Human Mission to the Red Planet Robert Zubrin, Joel Levin, Paul Davies 2012 978-0971644526 A roadmap to Mars. How it can be done, what it would be like, and how the mission can be paid for
The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars Robert M. Haberle, R. Todd Clancy, François Forget, Michael D. Smith, Richard W. Zurek 2017 978-1107016187 This book brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system of Mars
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers William J. Clancey 2012 978-0262017756 A story of the JPL team that remotely operated the Mars Exploration Rovers
Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission Andrew Mishkin 2004 978-0425198391 An insider's view of the JPL led Mars Pathfinder mission
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton 2003 978-0312422615 The story of how we are able to map Mars in some ways better than Earth itself.
On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World Frank Crossman and Robert Zubrin 2005 978-1894959308 130 papers and essays from the annual conferences of the Mars Society
Going to Mars: The Stories of the people Behind NASA's Mars Missions Past, Present, and Future Garfield Reeves-Steven, Judith Reeves-Stevens), Brian Muirhead 2004 978-0671027964 A JPL scientist traces the history of Mars exploration and projects the future directions of expeditions to Mars
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Mary Roach 2010 978-0393339918 A human perspective of what space travel will be like
Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission Marc Kaufman 2014 978-1426212789 A National Geographic publication on the Curiosity Mission
How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet Robert Zubrin 2008 978-0307407184 The practicalities of your average Mars settler.
Mars Direct Robert Zubrin 2016 978-0974144351 The author describes his relatively simple plan, called Mars Direct, that could feasibly have humans on the surface of Mars within a decade
The Geology of Mars Thomas A. Mutch, R Arvidson 1977 978-0691081731 An encyclopedic book on Mars geology
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet William K. Hartmann 2003 978-0761126065 A traveler's guide to the evolution of Mars geology from a member of the Mars Global Surveyor science team
On to Mars: Colonizing a New World Robert Zubrin and Frank Crossman 2002 978-1896522906 A compendium of papers from the annual conferences of the Mars Society
Human Exploration of Mars: Design Reference Architecture 5.0 Bert G. Drake 2009 NASA-SP-2009-566 The systems and operations that would be used for the first three missions to explore the surface of Mars by humans
Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 - Addendum Bert G. Drake 2009 NASA/SP–2009–566-ADD Addendum to The systems and operations that would be used for the first three missions to explore the surface of Mars by humans
Geology of Mars James W. Head 2006 http://www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/2949.pdf A multi-referenced review of the evolving understanding of geology on Mars
The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars Arthur C. Clarke 1994 978-0575063228 The author presents his vision of the colonization of Mars and shows what humans could do to make it inhabitable
Mars, the Red Planet Iaaac Asimov 1977 978-0688418120 A study of Mars from the earliest discoveries of its distance, size, and satellites to recent data gathered during the Viking probes

References

  1. National Space Society/Settling Mars
  2. Goodreads/Best Popular Books about Mars
  3. Top Books about Mars [1]