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The far side of the moon : a photographic guide /

The far side of the Moon was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. A giant impact struck the near side with such force that it created the "near side megabasin", opening the way for floods of mare and sending vast amounts of ejecta to the far...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byrne, Charles J., 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Springer, 2007.
Colección:Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter; The Far Side of the Moon; The Spacecraft Missions and Images; The History of the Moon and its Features; Regions of the Far Side; Nomenclature and Conventions of this Book; The Western Far Side Region: Earth-rise, Tsiolkovskiy, Gagarin, and the Mendeleev Basin; The Korolev Basin Region; The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region; The Northwestern Far Side Region: The Moscoviense Basin; The Eastern Far Side Region: Birkhoff to Hertzsprung; The North Polar Far Side Region; The Orientale Limb Region; The Near Side Megabasin; Back Matter.