Martian Summer

Author : Andrew Kessler
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497641403
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martian Summer written by Andrew Kessler and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this “fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor” (Publishers Weekly). The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. Its purpose was to find out how climate change could turn a warm, wet planet (read: Earth) into a cold, barren desert (read: Mars). Along the way, Phoenix discovered a giant frozen ocean trapped beneath the north pole of Mars, exotic food for aliens, and liquid water, and laid the foundation for NASA’s current exploration of Mars using the Curiosity rover. This is not science fiction. It’s fact. And for the luckiest fanboy in fandom, it was the best vacation ever. Andrew Kessler spent the summer of 2008 in NASA’s mission control with one hundred thirty of the world’s best planetary scientists and engineers as they carried out this ambitious operation. He came back with a story of human drama about modern-day pioneers battling NASA politics, temperamental robots, and the bizarre world of daily life in mission control.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678193
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martian Chronicles written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

Author : Andrew Kessler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605983462
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martian Summer written by Andrew Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's never been a better time to be an armchair astronaut. Readers are invited to spend a summer on the Phoenix Mars mission--something that has taken nearly the entirety of human knowledge to achieve.

Author : Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Report - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology written by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Langley Research Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.7O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission status bulletin. Viking project, mission to Mars written by Langley Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Weber Coblentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temperature Estimates of the Planet Mars written by William Weber Coblentz and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Camille Flammarion
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319096419
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars written by Camille Flammarion and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own—the habitability of other worlds. There followed a career as France’s greatest popularizer of astronomy, with over 60 titles to his credit. An admirer granted him a chateau at Juvisy-sur-l’Orge, and he set up a first-rate observatory dedicated to the study of the planet Mars. Finally, in 1892, he published his masterpiece, La Planete Mars et ses conditions d’habitabilite, a comprehensive summary of three centuries’ worth of literature on Mars, much of it based on his own personal research into rare memoirs and archives. As a history of that era, it has never been surpassed, and remains one of a handful of indispensable books on the red planet. Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) needs no introduction; his record of popularizing astronomy in Britain in the 20th century equaled Flammarion’s in France in the 19th century. Moore pounded out hundreds of books as well as served as presenter of the BBC’s TV program “Sky at Night” program for 55 years (a world record). Though Moore always insisted that the Moon was his chef-d’oeuvre, Mars came a close second, and in 1980 he produced a typescript of Flammarion’s classic. Unfortunately, even he found the project too daunting for his publish ers and passed the torch of keeping the project alive to a friend, the amateur astronomer and author William Sheehan, in 1993. Widely regarded as a leading historian of the planet Mars, Sheehan has not only meticulously compared and corrected Moore’s manuscript against Flammarion’s original so as to produce an authoritative text, he has added an important introduction showing the book’s significance in the history of Mars studies. Here results a book that remains an invaluable resource and is also a literary tour-de-force, in which the inimitable style of Flammarion has been rendered in the equally unique style of Moore.

Author : Peter L. Read
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540407430
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martian Climate Revisited written by Peter L. Read and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The atmosphere and climate of Mars is a crucial factor, both for understanding the planet's past and appreciating the possibilities of its future. Given the high level of current interest in Mars, and the major advances afforded by recent space exploration, this book seeks to examine and review our knowledge and understanding of the meteorology and climate of Mars in its present state. This is based not only upon direct observations, but also on the newer techniques of modelling: numerical simulation and data assimilation. This authoritative discussion of Mars' atmosphere and climate gives a balanced review of some of the hottest issues concerning Mars' environments, its present and past climate and potential to support life, and its possible future following manned exploration.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Mission Status Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard J. Soare
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128130199
Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Dynamic Mars written by Richard J. Soare and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of this terrestrial body. These changes raise questions about a decades-old paradigm, formed largely in the aftermath of very coarse Mariner-mission imagery in the 1960s, suggesting that much of the interesting geological activity on Mars occurred deep in its past, eons ago. The book includes discussions of (1) Mars’ ever-changing atmosphere and the impact of this on the planet’s surface and near-surface; (2) the possible involvement of water in relatively new, if not contemporary, gully-like flows and slope streaks (i.e. recurring slope lineae); and (3) the identification of a broad suite of agents and processes (i.e. glacial, periglacial, aeolian, meteorological, volcanic, and meteoric) that are actively revising surface and near-surface landscapes, landforms, and features on a local, regional, and hemispheric scale. Highly illustrated and punctuated by data from the most recent Mars missions, Dynamic Mars is a valuable resource for all levels of research in the geological history of Mars, as well as of the three other terrestrial planets. Utilizes observational and model-based data as well as geological context to frame the understanding of the dynamic surface and near-surface of Mars Presents a broad spectrum of highly regarded experts and themes to discuss and evaluate the geological history of late and current Mars Includes extensive and detailed imagery to clearly illustrate these themes, discussions, and evaluations