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Distant Worlds : Milestones in Planetary Exploration /

By: Bond, Peter [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.Description: X, 324 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387683676.Subject(s): Physics | Science | Astronomy | Astrophysics | Cosmology | Aerospace engineering | Astronautics | Physics | Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology | Popular Science in Astronomy | Aerospace Technology and Astronautics | Science, generalDDC classification: 520 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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 perspective provides a much-needed overview, but it also details the very human feelings that animated the intense rivalries between the Soviet Union and the United States, and most recently the difficulties that arose in collaborations between NASA and ESA on the Rosetta and Halley's Comet missions.
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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.

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 perspective provides a much-needed overview, but it also details the very human feelings that animated the intense rivalries between the Soviet Union and the United States, and most recently the difficulties that arose in collaborations between NASA and ESA on the Rosetta and Halley's Comet missions.

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