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Michael Carroll

Picture This!

Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space

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Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put, in scale, side by side extraterrestrial objects with objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example, study the pictures of Earth floating above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto's CN Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later chapters, you will be told how c… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-24905-6
  • EAN: 9783319249056
  • Produktnummer: 31955922
  • Verlag: Springer Nature EN
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H27.9 cm x B21.0 cm 7'704 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
  • Abbildungen: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Tabellen, farbig
  • Gewicht: 7704
  • Sonstiges: Popular/general

Über den Autor


Michael Carroll is a space artist and science writer. He has done commissioned work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world, including National Geographic, Time, Asimov's Science Fiction, Smithsonian, Astronomy, and others. One of his paintings was flown aboard Russia's MIR space station in 1995. Recent murals include the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Fleet Science Center in San Diego, and Lockheed/Martin. Carroll is a Fellow of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts and has written articles and books on topics ranging from space to dinosaurs to biblical archaeology. His articles have appeared in Popular Science, Astronomy, Astronomy Now (UK), Sky & Telescope, and a host of children's magazines. In 2007, he was awarded the Lucien Rudaux Award for lifetime contribution to the astronomical arts. Carroll has authored three books already for Springer, entitled The Seventh Landing (2009), Drifting in Alien Skies (2011) and Alien Seas (2013).

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