Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691147531 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"New Horizons, New Worlds" according to Steve Reina. Were Rip Van Winkle to have gone to sleep in 1958 instead of going to sleep in the 18th century and just awoken now he would have returned to a world strikingly different than the one he left.Back in 1958 no country on Earth had yet managed to even get an object into space.Now, a mere have century, not only have objects gone into space, but they've taken people along wi. FictionFan said "There is music in the spacing of the spheres." Pythagoras. Last week, NASA announced that Voyager 1, launched "There is music in the spacing of the spheres." Pythagoras Last week, NASA announced that Voyager 1, launched 36 years ago, has finally left our solar system and entered interstellar space. A mind-blowing achievement which will allow scientists to confirm some of their theories and expectations of what we will find beyond the reach of our Sun. But Voyager, impressive though it is, is only one of the amazing journeys we are maki. 6 years ago, has finally left our solar system and entered interstellar space. A mind-blowing achievement which will allow scientists to confirm some of their theories and expectations of what we will find beyond the reach of our Sun. But Voyager, impressive though it is, is only one of the amazing journeys we are maki. "A top-notch book about unmanned space exploration" according to K. Bunker. Although human beings have yet to set foot on any body further away than our own moon, in a very real sense we have "been" to countless other amazing places in space. Our robot craft have landed on Mars, Venus, and Saturn's moon Titan. They have orbited or flown by all the major planets of the solar system. They have brought us dazzling pictures of these planets, as wel
The book is well told, and interweaves its story with wonderful little nuggets."--Katia Moskvitch, BBC Sky at Night"Dreams of Other Worlds is a substantial chronology of the exploration of the solar system objects that humans have wondered about ever since Galileo first pointed his telescope at Jupiter and peered through it. An account of a magnificent panorama of knowledge."--Konstantin Kakaes, Wall Street Journal"Refreshing. People with an interest in space exploration will wa
Holly Henry is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy. Chris Impey is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. . His books include The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, and How It Began
The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it.The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories--Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble--and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation.Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the tempor