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Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General
Casina's friend Steve tells her there are hidden Portals, or
entrances, at the City's shops that will transport her to another
Place and Time. If she agrees to take up the challenge, he will
give her clues as to what she must do to put things right. Testing
this, Casina discovers a dark and empty Dr Who shop. She steps
closer, the air begins to shimmer and Casina finds herself hurtling
through Space no less. Coming to a halt, she hears a humming sound
and soon she is witnessing the birth of a New Planet.Further
adventures follow such as visiting the Garden of Eden and the Great
Pyramids of Egypt, which Casina had always wanted to see.
Moving to Mars may sound like science fiction but the truth is that
today, scant decades since our first space missions, humanity is on the
verge of becoming multiplanetary. SpaceX is building a Starship
transport system; China successfully demonstrated crop growth on the
Moon; and, in a space mining milestone, Japan's recent asteroid
missions have returned samples to Earth.
Adriana Marais has dedicated her life to preparing for extraplanetary
settlement, considering not just the scientific and technological
possibilities but also the ethical responsibilities of our species as
we explore new frontiers. In 2019, she launched the Proudly Human:
Off-World Project, a series of extreme habitation experiments
investigating the capabilities necessary for life beyond our home
planet.
In this extraordinary era of rapid technological development, Marais
explores the scientific and ethical questions that stands at the heart
of scientific endeavour: How did we get here - and where are we going
next?
Optics of the Moon presents methods for interpreting optics of
surfaces on the Moon with complicated structures. For example, the
book illustrates how phase-ratio techniques can lead to the
detection of surface structure anomalies, describes polarimetric
studies of the lunar surface and their use, and addresses many
other questions relating to the regolith-like surfaces of the Moon,
such as why the Moon looks like a ball at a large phase angle and
like a disk in full moon, why the lunar surface has slight color
variations, and why at large phase angles its polarization degree
closely correlates with albedo.
Stonehenge was not an observatory used by druidical
astronomer-priests. It was, instead, a monument in which the moon
and the sun and the dead were joined together. In this book the
author explains how people in the British Isles, four thousand or
more years ago, identified life and death with the cycle of
midwinter and midsummer and with the risings and settings of the
sun and moon. This is why so many megalithic monuments have
astronomical sightlines built into them. This book describes how
astronomical customs developed in the British Isles. Unlike other
works about 'megalithic astronomy' technical explanations about
azimuths and declinations are kept to their simplest. The emphasis
here is upon people rather than pertrubations and eclipses.
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