Exploring the planets : a memoir /

The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing. Exploring the Planets offers a personal account on how the space programme evolved. It begins in the era of the first blurry views of our...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, F. W.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Astrophysicists > England > Biography.
Astrophysicists.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • Satellites and spires
  • The gateway to the planets
  • Voyage to Venus
  • With Galileo to Jupiter
  • Back to Oxford
  • Forecasting weather and climate
  • The ozone layer and other crises
  • Mishaps at Mars
  • Operation Saturn
  • The days of the comet
  • Return to the silent planet
  • Marooned on Mercury
  • Mars at last
  • Ice on the moon
  • A beginner's guide to the end of the world
  • STanding at the edge of time
  • Epilogue.

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