Messages from Mars
Coauthored by Andrew Schuerger, Ph.D.

One hundred years in the future, five lucky students win the chance to blast off into space and explore Mars. The emails they send home are filled with many amazing facts about the red planet. A highlight of the trip is a tour of the actual landing sites of the Viking, Pathfinder, and MER missions.

Art: Authentic Mars photographs and digital illustration.

“Anticipating a time in the near future when humans will set foot on the Red Planet, the authors express the wonder of exploration and the possibility of a colony there.”
School Library Journal

Grades 1– 5. Full color, hardcover,
40 pages. Holiday House, 2006.
0-8234-1954-1.

To find out some fun trivia about the book and even more Mars facts, click here.

To visit Dr. Schuerger’s lab, click here.
Endurance Crater and blueberries
PROJECT: Explore a place such a zoo, a park, or a museum. Take notes and photographs along the way. Write an email or letter about the visit, include some photographs, and send it to a friend or relative. The idea is to make the person you contact feel as if they had been there, too.
Find out about the Phoenix Mars Mission.
BOOKS
HOME ORDER BOOKS