Mars: the lure of the red planet

pt. 1. Pale red dot

1. Lilac dawn

2. Mars in the solar system

3. Wanderers and wonderers

4. The untrackable star

5. The war with Mars

pt. 2. A swelling orb

6. The sails of imagination

7. Mappers of strange seas

8. "A less difficult and bloody conquest"

Sidebar : a color-blind astronomer

"Mars," excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell

9. Lowell's Mars

10. La Grande Lunette

Sidebar : the canals of Mars

pt. 3. The Mars of romance

11. Invaders from Mars

12. War of the worlds

pt. 4. Marsfall

13. Water, water anywhere?

14. Woodstock Mars

15. The brave new world of Mariner 9

pt. 5. The abode of life?

16. Paradise lost?

17. If stones could talk.