NASA Missions to Mars

Whether it conjures up thoughts of green Martians or as a potential home to humans one day, Mars has inspired boundless fascination – and exploration. Who better then, than space historian Piers Bizony to show you around this planet that’s 246 million miles from Earth?

Using glorious imagery from the NASA archives, alongside photos and data beamed back by spacecraft orbiting Mars, Bizony covers it all, from the flybys of the 1960s to the Perseverance rover landing in 2021 and how we’d need to be dressed if landing on the surface. There’s even a fold-out map for Earth dwellers to follow.