The Far Side of the Moon A Photographic Guide /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Byrne, Charles J. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

This book is a companion to Byrnes's award-winning Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon (Springer, 2005). It provides comprehensive coverage of the far side of the Moon, and is the first book that collects photographs from all five Lunar Orbiter missions: Clementine, Ap...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Far Side of the Moon
• The Spacecraft Missions and Images
• The History of the Moon and its Features
• Regions of the Far Side
• Nomenclature and Conventions of this Book
• The Western Far Side Region: Earth-rise, Tsiolkovskiy, Gagarin, and the Mendeleev Basin
• The Korolev Basin Region
• The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region
• The Northwestern Far Side Region: The Moscoviense Basin
• The Eastern Far Side Region: Birkhoff to Hertzsprung
• The North Polar Far Side Region
• The Orientale Limb Region
• The Near Side Megabasin.