Bond Distant Worlds

Milestones in Planetary Exploration
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-387-68367-6
Verlag: Copernicus
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

CHAPTER 1: DISCOVERING DISTANT WORLDS 3 CHAPTER 2: MERCURY: THE IRON PLANET 21 CHAPTER 3: VENUS: THE RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE 45 CHAPTER 4: THE MOON: QUEEN OF THE NIGHT 69 5: MARS: THE RED PLANET CHAPTER 101 CHAPTER 6: ASTEROIDS: VERMIN OF THE SKIES 129 CHAPTER 7: JUPITER: KING OF THE PLANETS 147 CHAPTER 8: SATURN: LIGHTWEIGHT LORD OF THE RINGS 185 CHAPTER 9: URANUS: THE TOPPLED GIANT 217 CHAPTER 10: NEPTUNE: THE LAST GIANT 237 CHAPTER 11: PLUTO: KING OF THE KUIPER BELT 257 CHAPTER 12: COMETS: COSMIC ICEBERGS 269 APPENDICES 1: Lunar and Planetary Missions 285 2: Planetary Data 298 3: Satellite Data 299 4: Planetary Rings 305 5: The Largest Known Kuiper Belt Objects 307 6: Lunar and Planetary Firsts 308 7: Selected Reading List 310 8: Selected Websites 314 INDEX 317 VII Until about 500 years ago, the Earth was believed to lie at Pluto and its recently discovered, larger cousin in the far the center of the Universe, with the Sun and five planets reaches of the Sun's realm. For the first time, human eyes revolving around it. The planets themselves were merely have been able to see towering cliffs, dust devils, erupting points of light that drifted across the stellar constellations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Preface;8
3;Discovering distant worlds;11
4;Mercury: The iron planet;29
5;Venus: The runaway greenhouse;52
6;The Moon: Queen of the night;75
7;Mars: The red planet;107
8;Asteroids: Vermin of the skies;134
9;Jupiter: King of the planets;151
10;Saturn: Lightweight lord of the rings;188
11;Uranus: The toppled giant;220
12;Neptune: The last giant;239
13;Pluto: King of the kuiper belt;258
14;Comets: Cosmic icebergs;270
15;Appendices;286
16;Index;318