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Dreams of Other Worlds - The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration - Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Dreams of Other Worlds - The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration - Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that
have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of
dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book
tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they
have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural
perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey
begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars,
which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of
habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with
the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons
of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with
a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos
missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly
illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has
been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great
observatories--Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble--and how the WMAP
mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams
of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions
have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small
planet in a vast cosmos.
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