Distant Worlds Milestones in Planetary Exploration /

• Main Author: Bond, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Science, general.

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 perspec...

Table of 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.