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  title info:
    title: Exploring the Moon
    sub title: The Apollo Expeditions
  name:
    name part: Harland, David M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 404 p. 176 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 in terms of what was discovered, and how over the next several missions the program was progressively geared up to enable the final three missions each to spend three days on comprehensive geological investigations. He concludes with a review of the robotic spacecraft that made remote-sensing observations of the Moon. Although aimed at the enthusiast, and can be read as an adventure in exploration, the book develops the scientific theme of lunar geology, and therefore will be of use as background reading for undergraduate students of planetary sciences. In addition, with the prospect of a resumption of human missions, it will help journalists understand what Apollo achieved after the 'flags and footprints' of the Apollo 11 landing in July1969 and will commemorate the fortieth anniversary of that momentous event. Highlighted as a "Commemorative Edition" on the cover, this second edition has a new foreword by one of the original astronauts and a short extra section at the end previewing the prospect of a renewal of human exploration of the Moon. It will include new extra high quality graphics which are only now available and 32 pages of colour illustrations. From the reviews of the first edition - "A detailed guide to what the astronauts did during their stays on the lunar surface. Walk(s) the reader through the prospecting excursions and then incorporate(s) decades of subsequent analysis to put the explorations of dust, rocks, craters, and rilles into geologic context." SKY & TELESCOPE "EXPLORING THE MOON is very well illustrated…All aficionados of the Apollo program will find much to appreciate in [this book]. "…this is an interestin…
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of acronyms -- Foreword by Harrison Schmitt -- Author’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Apollo challenge -- The robots -- Magnificent desolation -- ‘Pin-point’ target -- Knowledge from the Moon -- The wonder of the unknown at Hadley-Apennine -- Surprise at Descartes-Cayley -- The beautiful valley of Taurus-Littrow -- Luna revival -- Apollo in context -- Spaceflight log -- Lunar landing sites -- Apollo missions, facts and figures -- Apollo lunar samples -- Chronological bibliography -- Index.
  note: by David M. Harland.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387746418
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74641-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204182748.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-74641-8