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100 1 _aBond, Peter.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDistant Worlds
_h[electronic resource] :
_bMilestones in Planetary Exploration /
_cby Peter Bond.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York,
_c2007.
300 _aX, 324 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 _aDiscovering 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.
520 _aPeter 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.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aScience.
650 0 _aAstronomy.
650 0 _aAstrophysics.
650 0 _aCosmology.
650 0 _aAerospace engineering.
650 0 _aAstronautics.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
650 2 4 _aPopular Science in Astronomy.
650 2 4 _aAerospace Technology and Astronautics.
650 2 4 _aScience, general.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68367-6
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950 _aPhysics and Astronomy (Springer-11651)
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