"From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-color photographs-a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars"-- Human exploration of Mars is the most ambitious and exciting scientific goal of the twenty-first century. Few people know as much...

"Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam... observe... measure... and collect. It explores the red landscape-- crossing plains, climbing hills, and tracing the bottoms of craters--in search of water and life. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be... the most curious."--Inside book jacket flap.