In this extraordinary Baedeker - accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft - visitors will encounter: - Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, rising three times as high as Mount Everest and covering an area the size of Missouri.
- Tharsis Planitia, the 'high plains of Mars,' with plains rising 29,000 feet - wide enough to cover Europe.
- Valles Marineris, an equatorial canyon so vast that America's Grand Canyon would be a mere tributary.
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