Ice, Rock, and Beauty (eBook)
XVII, 130 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-73103-2 (ISBN)
Although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, few are familiar with the large and varied array of objects that travel with and between the planets in their journeys around the Sun.
Imaging techniques from Earth continue to improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many excellent images. Most significantly of all, several missions in recent years have shown a huge diversity of objects in close-up for the first time. The book will take advantage of the rich pool of images that is available, to tell a story of the Solar System that has not been told before.
Smaller Bodies will be a collection of approximately 72 stunning images, all from the public domain but not hitherto gathered into a coherent collection, with supporting text and graphics. Each main image will be accompanied by a graphic showing the location in the Solar System of the featured object. All of these graphics will be based in a simple template providing a simple representation of the Solar System. Text will not be extensive, allowing page design to have a high priority, and will be of three kinds. 'Main text' (approximately 200 words) will provide stimulating introduction and some key ideas. Text headed 'The object(s)' (25-75 words) will provide a brief description of featured objects. Text headed 'The image' (25-75 words) will provide information on the source of the image and some brief technical information where required (such as in describing use of false color).
The book is intended for anybody who lives in solar orbit and takes a general interest in the solar neighborhood.
David Brodie is the author of several successful educational textbooks and his travel writing has been published in the national press. He has initiated and run 'art-science' projects on neuroscience and on particle physics, resulting in significant national exhibitions.
Although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, few are familiar with the large and varied array of objects that travel with and between the planets in their journeys around the Sun.Imaging techniques from Earth continue to improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many excellent images. Most significantly of all, several missions in recent years have shown a huge diversity of objects in close-up for the first time. The book will take advantage of the rich pool of images that is available, to tell a story of the Solar System that has not been told before.Smaller Bodies will be a collection of approximately 72 stunning images, all from the public domain but not hitherto gathered into a coherent collection, with supporting text and graphics. Each main image will be accompanied by a graphic showing the location in the Solar System of the featured object. All of these graphics will be based in a simple template providing a simple representation of the Solar System. Text will not be extensive, allowing page design to have a high priority, and will be of three kinds. Main text (approximately 200 words) will provide stimulating introduction and some key ideas. Text headed The object(s) (25-75 words) will provide a brief description of featured objects. Text headed The image (25-75 words) will provide information on the source of the image and some brief technical information where required (such as in describing use of false color). The book is intended for anybody who lives in solar orbit and takes a general interest in the solar neighborhood.
David Brodie is the author of several successful educational textbooks and his travel writing has been published in the national press. He has initiated and run âart-scienceâ projects on neuroscience and on particle physics, resulting in significant national exhibitions.
Acknowledgments 5
Contents 6
Introduction 7
The Inner Solar System 9
Followers of Jupiter 11
Saturn’s Glories 13
Uranus, Neptune, and Outward 15
The Wonder Just Goes On and On 18
Within Ourselves 20
That’s You, Right in the Middle 22
Not Quite a Bee’s Eye View 24
The Namer and the Named 26
The Truth but not the Whole Truth 28
What Happened Next 30
Up and Down 32
What It’s Good At 34
Third Rock and a Bit 36
A Fabulous Night 38
Aorounga to Zapadnaya (by Way of Manicouagan) 40
Known and Unknown 42
Works of Nature… 44
…And Cold Indifference 46
Enough Way Beyonds 48
A Pretty Face but a Cold One 50
A Journey of a Thousand Lifetimes 52
A Moon of One’s Own 54
No Substitute for Going There 56
Ringshine 58
Beneath the Blowing Sands 60
Designed by Committee 62
No Ordinary String 64
An Innocent Passer-by? 66
Once Upon a Time, Long Ago 68
Bigger Than We Are 70
Unpossessed 72
So Similar, So Different 74
As an Angel 76
Tricks of the Light 78
More Than a Match 80
Curiously Normal 82
Looking Again 84
Realities Like This 86
Above a Turbulent Sky 88
They All Turn out Differently 90
Warhol’s Worlds 92
An Edge of Darkness 94
No Moon Is an Island 96
What Shall We Call Her? 98
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 100
Heaven’s Harpstrings… 102
…And the Gates of Hell 104
Simple Rings 106
Crime Scene Investigation 108
The Dust Left Behind 110
Skies on Fire 112
Looking on the Bright Side 114
Fragments of Truth 116
All Her Thoughts 118
Leaving Just the Oddballs 120
Epic Stories 122
Mimas in Blue 124
Taking What You Can Get 126
Time in the Sun 128
Something out there Moving 130
This Side of Xanadu 132
Simplicity Too 134
The Journey of a Hero 136
Whatever Seasons 138
Forever Entangled 140
Index 142
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.9.2007 |
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Mitarbeit |
Anpassung von: C. Murray |
Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 134 p. 144 illus., 48 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Asteroid images • astronomy books • NASA images • Planet • planetary moons • pretty pictures of the sky • Satellite images • Solar • Solar System • Solar System rocks • Space Science |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-73103-2 / 0387731032 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-73103-2 / 9780387731032 |
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