Beyond visions of the interplanetary probes
"These images are a spectacular reaffirmation that we are privileged to live in the greatest age of exploration the world has ever known."-From Arthur C. Clarke's foreword Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore...
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Harry N. Abrams
2003
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Add Tag | Summary: | "These images are a spectacular reaffirmation that we are privileged to live in the greatest age of exploration the world has ever known."-From Arthur C. Clarke's foreword Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons, and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to the ethereal rings of Saturn. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | 319 pages chiefly illustrations (some colour) 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 0810945312 |
Orbit NASA astronouts photograph the earth