Lunar Science A Post Apollo View

Author : Stuart Ross Taylor
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483136906
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Science: A Post - Apollo View written by Stuart Ross Taylor and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunar Science: A Post-Apollo View: Scientific Results and Insights from the Lunar Samples explains the scientific results and discoveries of the manned Apollo lunar missions as they are understood. The emphasis is less on sample description and data and more on the interpretative aspects of the study, with the aim of providing a coherent story of the evolution of the moon and its origin as revealed by the lunar samples and the Apollo missions. This text has seven chapters; the first of which provides a historical background of efforts to study the moon prior to the Apollo missions, including lunar photogeologic mapping and direct exploration by spacecraft. Attention then turns to the Apollo missions and the lunar samples collected, beginning with Apollo 11 that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 and followed by more missions. The next chapter describes the geology of the moon, with emphasis on craters, central peaks and peak rings, the large ringed basins, rilles, and maria lava flows. The reader is also introduced to the nature of the lunar surface material, the maria basalts, the highlands, and the moon’s interior. This book concludes with a discussion on the evidence that has been gathered by the Apollo missions that offers insights into the origin and evolution of the moon. An epilogue reflects on the usefulness of manned space flight. This book will appeal to lunar scientists as well as to those with an interest in astronomy and space exploration.

Author : S.R. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Science written by S.R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald A. Beattie
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874406
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Science to the Moon written by Donald A. Beattie and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transports the reader behind NASAs facade, and into the 1960s' politics, planning sessions, turf battles, camaraderie, and jealousies of the world's major space agency. An absorbing, insightful, and revealing critical history." -- The Observatory

Author : Harold Masursky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo Over the Moon written by Harold Masursky and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Masursky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo Over the Moon written by Harold Masursky and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stuart Ross Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Science written by Stuart Ross Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo 12 Preliminary Science Report written by Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apollo 11 Mission, primarily designed to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth, signaled a new phase of the manned space program. Based on the success of Apollo 11, the first of a series of missions designed for the systematic exploration of the Moon was successfully accomplished on Apollo 12. The fact that the Apollo 12 astronauts were able to achieve a pinpoint landing at a preselected site, and then spend an extended time on the lunar surface, graphically illustrates the rapid progress of the Apollo program. The Apollo 12 mission added significantly to man's knowledge of the Moon. The precise landing capability allowed the crew to accomplish a wide variety of preplanned tasks and paved the way for planning future missions to smaller, more selected landing areas with the possibility of significant scientific returns. The publication includes chapters on mission description, summary of scientific results, photographic summary of the Apollo 12 Mission, crew observations, passive seismic experiment, lunar surface magnetometer experiment, the solar-wind spectrometer experiment, suprathermal ion detector experiment (lunar ionosphere detector), cold cathode gage (lunar atmosphere detector), the solar-wind composition experiment, Apollo 12 multispectral photography experiment, preliminary geologic investigation of the Apollo 12 landing site, lunar surface closeup stereoscopic photography, preliminary examination of lunar samples, and preliminary results from Surveyor 3 analysis.

Author : Bevan M. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's New on the Moon? written by Bevan M. French and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred A. Levinson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483186865
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon Rocks and Minerals written by Alfred A. Levinson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon Rocks and Minerals compiles the important findings that have resulted from the first study of the Apollo 11 lunar rocks, including preliminary data on Apollo 12 lunar samples. The compiled study samples and proposals on the lunar rocks are categorized into four general categories— mineralogy and petrology, chemical and isotope analyses, physical properties, and bioscience and organic geochemistry. In these categories, this book specifically discusses the types and mineralogy of lunar rocks and soils; chemistry of samples brought by Apollo 11 and 12; and experimental studies and origin of the lavas. The age of the lunar rocks, isotope studies, cosmic ray, and solar wind effects and origin of the moon are also deliberated. This text also covers the examination of lunar samples for the presence of biochemical organic compounds in the general context of the possibility of extraterrestrial life. This publication is beneficial to scientists of disciplines such as geochemistry, cosmochemistry, mineralogy, and geophysics.

Author : Grant Heiken
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521334440
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.