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Exploring the Planets - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Exploring the Planets - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own
Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and
whether climate is really changing. Exploring the Planets offers a
personal account on how the space programme evolved. It begins in
the era of the first blurry views of our Earth as seen from space,
and ends with current plans for sophisticated robots on places as
near as our neighbours Venus and Mars and as far away as the rainy
lakelands of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. Examining the
scientific goals of these complex voyages of discovery, and the
joys and hardships of working to achieve them. The Space Age is now
about 50 years old and for those lucky enough to be part of it at
its inception, it's filled a worklong lifetime. Today, several
satellites around the Earth have studied the atmosphere and the
climate using instruments on board that the author helped design
and build. 'Deep space' missions were embarked upon to visit the
planets: all of the major bodies (six planets, the Moon and minor
bodies, asteroids and comets) of the classical Solar System have
been scrutinised close-up by experiments built in various
laboratories worldwide. Most of the narrative is based on the
author's experiences at the world's space agencies, research labs,
and conferences, and at other places as diverse as Cape Canaveral
and No. 10 Downing Street.
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