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Author | : Christine Zuchora-Walske |
Publisher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1616418001 |
It's time for your mission to Mercury! Jump in your super speedy rocket to explore Mercury's size, atmosphere, temperature, gravity, orbits, Discovery Rupes, and Caloris Basin. Basic solar system facts are brought to life with a focus on what questions scientists are still trying to solve. Each book ends with a section on how scientists discovered the facts that have been presented. Bright, colorful illustrations and straightforward text make this topic accessible for even the youngest astronomer.
Author | : D.L. Domingue |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2007-12-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387772146 |
This is the first book to present the science and instruments of NASA’S MESSENGER space mission. The articles, written by the experts in each area of the MESSENGER mission, describe the mission, spacecraft, scientific objectives, and payload. The book is of interest to all potential users of the data returned by the mission, to those studying the nature of Mercury, and by all those interested in the design and implementation of planetary exploration missions.
Author | : James A. Dunne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeff Shesol |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324003251 |
A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."
Author | : Gene Kranz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2009-06-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439148813 |
The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.
Author | : Sean C. Solomon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107154456 |
Offers an authoritative synthesis of knowledge of the planet Mercury after the MESSENGER mission, for researchers and students in planetary science.
Author | : Hugh Walters |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473229855 |
The four intrepid astronauts, headed by Chris Godfrey, look forward with enthusiasm to their trip to Mercury until the new crew member turns out to be a girl! Gail Patrick is being sent along to test mental telepathy as a means of communication. Her twin sister, Gill, will remain in the control room on earth to receive and send messages into space.
Author | : David A. Rothery |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319121170 |
A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun’s innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury’s landscapes from a geological perspective: from sublimation hollows, to volcanic vents, to lava plains, to giant thrust faults. He considers what its giant core, internal structure and weird composition have to tell us about the formation and evolution of a planet so close to the Sun. This is of special significance in view of the discovery of so many exoplanets in similarly close orbits about their stars. Mercury generates its own magnetic field, like the Earth (but unlike Venus, Mars and the Moon), and the interplay between Mercury’s and the Sun’s magnetic field affects many processes on its surface and in the rich and diverse exosphere of neutral and charged particles surrounding the planet. There is much about Mercury that we still don’t understand. Accessible to the amateur, but also a handy state-of-the-art digest for students and researchers, the book shows how our knowledge of Mercury developed over the past century of ground-based, fly-by and orbital observations, and looks ahead at the mysteries remaining for future missions to explore.
Author | : Bruce C. Murray |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1977-06-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231514538 |
Author | : Faith Vilas |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 807 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816546533 |
"At its best in synthesizing [current available] information to derive theories about the geological and tectonic histories of the planet ."—Science Books & Films "This book is another in the excellent University of Arizona Space Science Series, each of which is based on a conference. . . .but goes far beyond a conference proceedings to present a comprehensive summary of current knowledge. . . .I recommend this book as a valuable compendium of current knowledge."—Pageoph "This collection will be a most valuable addition to any research library."—Choice