On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea
A Scientific Novel
Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world.The views from Titan's Mayda Outpost are spectacular, but all is not well at the moon's remote science base. On the shore of a methane sea beneath glowering skies, atmospherics researcher Abigail Marco finds herself in the middle of murder, piracy and colleagues who…
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- ISBN: 978-3-319-17758-8
- EAN: 9783319177588
- Produktnummer: 17848267
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.5 cm 435 g
- Auflage: 2015
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 435
Über den Autor
Award-winning space artist and science writer Michael Carroll has written 26 books, ranging from children's devotionals to titles that include Drifting on Alien Winds: Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds and Alien Seas: Oceans in Space, both published by Springer. He has done art for NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and dozens of book and magazine publishers internationally. Mike is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts. One of his paintings is resting at the north pole of Mars - in digital form - aboard the Phoenix lander. He is recipient of the Lucien Rudaux Award for lifetime achievement in the astronomical arts, and the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences Jonathan Eberhart Award for the year's best planetary science feature article.
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