Byrne The Far Side of the Moon

A Photographic Guide
2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-73206-0
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten, eBook

The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today’s computer technology. Byrne’s superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Charles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Contents.- The far side topography: why is it so different from the near side?.- The Near Side Megabasin and the South Pole – Aitken Basin.- Korolev and the antipodal highlands.- The scarp – the edge of the double layer of crustal ejecta.- Moscoviense, Tsiolkovsky and Gagarin Basins.- The South Pole – Aitken and Apollo Basins.- The South Polar region – where the water is?.- The North Polar region.- Glossary.- References.- General Index.- Using the CD-R.

Über Autor(innen)

Charlie Byrne worked as a systems engineer at Bellcomm, for support of the Lunar Orbiter project. He is currently carrying out research about the Moon, and was the discoverer of the gigantic "near side megabasin" that covers nearly all of the near side of the Moon and whose ejecta has established the shape of the far side of the Moon.