Exploring the Planets
A Memoir
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 ofSaturn'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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-165136-6
- EAN: 9780191651366
- Produktnummer: 19558542
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'350 KB
Über den Autor
Fred Taylor is Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus at Oxford University, UK, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a member of the Oxford Physics Department where he was head of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics for 21 years. He was educated at the University of Liverpool, and Oxford University. After graduating he spent ten years in the USA, in the Space Science Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He wasPrinciple Investigator on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter in 1979, making the first systematic study of meteorology of the atmosphere of Venus. He is currently participating in a number of planetary and Earth Observation space experiments, as well as contribution to theoretical work and modelling on problems inatmospheric and oceanic physics, such as ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect and climate change.
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