Future Solar System Exploration (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover, book is clean and tight. Community contributions to the NRC solar system exploration decadal survey.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . . . . 1st ed. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg+ condition. 2 ex-lib stamps on 2 early pgs (only markings), shallowest bend to margin of a few pgs, contents bright & clean, binding tight. 433 p.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 26 cm. 97 [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Boxes. Ex-library with usual library markings. Presented is a synopsis of the past, present, and future of NASA's planetary astronomy program. The goals of solar system exploration and the objectives of planetary astronomy are discussed in the first section. The second section examines the planetary astronomy program for 1988 in terms of finances, areas of strength, and areas of concern. Section three takes an in-depth look at ground-based and airborne planetary astronomy, while section four examines earth-orbital planetary astronomy. In each section, accomplishments and future missions are evaluated as to success and importance. Finally, the fifth section provides overall conclusions and recommendations. The goal of planetary exploration is to understand the nature and development of the planets, as illustrated by pictures from the first two decades of spacecraft missions and by the imaginations of space artists. Planets, comets, asteroids, and moons are studied to discover the reasons for their similarities and differences. NASA is at the leading edge of a journey of scientific discovery that promises to reveal new knowledge of our solar system's content, origin, evolution and the potential for life elsewhere. NASA Planetary Science is engaged in one of the oldest of scientific pursuits: the observation and discovery of our solar system's planetary objects. With an exploration strategy based on progressing from flybys, to orbiting, to landing, to roving and finally to returning samples from planetary bodies, NASA advances the scientific understanding of the solar system in extraordinary ways, while pushing the limits of spacecraft and robotic engineering design and operations. Since the 1960s, NASA has broadened its reach with increasingly sophisticated missions launched to a host of nearby planets, moons, comets and asteroids. NASA Planetary Science continues to expand our knowledge of the solar system, with spacecraft in place from the innermost planet of our solar system to the very edge of our sun's influence.

Gr.-8°, original hardcover. 1. ed. With numerous images, XIV, 433 p. Shelfmark on spine, stamp on title, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.