Mystical Mars: Everything about Mars

The purpose of this book is to give all information on Mars as much as possible by telling about everything we have got to know about Mars from ancient times to all the exploratory missions taken till the present time. There is now a huge competition to find out more about Mars. Different unmanned space missions to Mars by several space agencies of various countries have collected a lot of information on the Red planet. They have explored the terrain of Mars, its atmosphere and tried to find past traces of life, water, oxygen, and any traces of fossils. Mars is mentioned in ancient history as the God of War and is part of the folk tales of several ancient civilizations including the Greek, Roman, Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Incas, and several other civilizations of the past including Babylon and others.

We are not only exploring the terrain of Mars and its atmosphere, there is a huge interest to sent manned missions to Mars. All of this is not easy and manned missions to Mars are much more difficult and hazardous for the reason that the astronauts on this mission have to remain healthy; they should have a sufficient amount of oxygen to survive in travel as well as to survive the seven months-long journey. In addition to reaching Mars, they have to wait for two years when the distance between the Earth and Mars reduces and they can come back. Very few missions have been successful on the first attempt on Mars. But this must not make us afraid to send humans to Mars, and it is very important that our first human mission succeeds on its first attempt. There will not be a single spacecraft for the human mission but it will have several of them going together which will include one for housing the astronauts, another for carrying necessary supplies, third for carrying equipment, several Landers or rovers for construction activity, and others for scientific equipment, communication pieces of equipment and many other things.