Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration Book

Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration, This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System. The story of our exploration of the heavens, Peter Bond reminds us, began thousands of years ago, with the naked-eye observations of the earliest scientis, Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration

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Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration
Written by author Peter Bond
Published by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, August 2005
This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System. The story of our exploration of the heavens, Peter Bond reminds us, began thousands of years ago, with the naked-eye observations of the earliest scientis
In this much-needed overview of "where we stand today," Peter Bond describes the remarkable achievements of the astronomers, space scientists, and engineers who have made it possible to unravel the mysteries of the distant worlds that make up our Solar Sy

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Preface     ix
Discovering Distant Worlds     3
Mercury: The Iron Planet     21
Venus: The Runaway Greenhouse     45
The Moon: Queen of the Night     69
Mars: The Red Planet     101
Asteroids: Vermin of the Skies     129
Jupiter: King of the Planets     147
Saturn: Lightweight Lord of the Rings     185
Uranus: The Toppled Giant     217
Neptune: The Last Giant     237
Pluto: King of the Kuiper Belt     257
Comets: Cosmic Icebergs     269
Lunar and Planetary Missions     285
Planetary Data     298
Satellite Data     299
Planetary Rings     305
The Largest Known Kuiper Belt Objects     307
Lunar and Planetary Firsts     308
Selected Reading List     310
Selected Websites     314
Index     317

Title: Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration

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Steidl Publishing

Item Number: 9780387402123

Publication Date: August 2005

Number: 1

Product Description: Full Name: Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration; Short Name:Distant Worlds

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 8.100 cm (3.19 inches)

Heigh : 8.300 cm (3.27 inches)

Depth: 0.900 cm (0.35 inches)

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Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross

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This book has changed my life! I want to be an astronaut (Gemma scurries off to find someone who will teach her A-level maths & physics ... )

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