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The Big Book of Mars

Hartzman likes to focus on the fun stories from Mars astronomy

How obsessed are we with the Red Planet?

■ Author: Marc Hartzman

■ Publisher: Quirk Books

■ Price: £19.99 / $24.99

■ Release: Out now

Marc Hartzman’s latest literary work could be described as a kind of alternative history of Mars observation. It’s not a stuffy chronology of scientific discoveries through the eyes of Hershel, Galileo and astronomers from antiquity – although there is a bit of that just for context.

Instead within these pages Hartzman likes to focus on the fun stories from Mars astronomy, many of which are much more likely to be heard in

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