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  title info:
    title: Planetary Vistas
    sub title: The Landscapes of Other Worlds
  name:
    name part: Murdin, Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 185 p. 157 illus., 124 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with background information to put into context the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here, literally, are 'other-worldly' visions of strange new scenes, all captured by the latest technology by landing and roving vehicles or by very low-flying spacecraft. There is more than scientific interest in these views. They are also aesthetically beautiful and intriguing, and Dr. Murdin in a final chapter compares them to terrestrial landscapes in fine art. Planetary Vistas is a science book and a travel book across the planets and moons of the Solar System for armchair space explorers who want to be amazed and informed. This book shows what future space explorers will experience, because these are the landscapes that astronauts and space tourists will see.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Landscapes on Other Worlds -- Chapter 2: The Lakes of Titan -- Chapter 3: The Craters of the Lunar Landscape -- Chapter 4: Ice and Dust Fountains, Rock Piles -- Chapter 5: Dusty Plains, Steep Hills and Rugged Lunar Mountains -- Chapter 6: The Rocky Landscapes of Mars -- Chapter 7: The Vulcanic Scenery of Venus and Io -- Chapter 8: Frost, Ice and Snow -- Chapter 9: Cosmic Skyscapes -- Chapter 10: Representing Alien Landscapes -- Appendix 1: Down to Earth -- Appendix 2: Space Exploration Missions -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Paul Murdin.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319152424
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15242-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 150601
    record change date: 20151204162920.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-15242-4