Distant Worlds Milestones in Planetary Exploration /

Peter Bond provides an overview of key, unmanned missions, chapter by chapter, to planets in the twentieth century. He tells the story of the mission planners and engineers who, working mostly in the background, made these unprecedented achievements in scientific exploration possible. Bond's pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bond, Peter (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Temas:
Astronomy.
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discovering Distant Worlds
  • Mercury: The Iron Planet
  • Venus: The Runaway Greenhouse
  • The Moon: Queen of the night
  • Mars: The red planet
  • Asteroids: Vermin of the skies
  • Jupiter: King of the planets
  • Saturn: Lightweight lord of the rings
  • Uranus: The toppled giant
  • Neptune: The last giant
  • Pluto: King of the Kuiper Belt
  • Comets: Cosmic icebergs.

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