TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ulivi,Paolo
AU  - Harland,David M.
TI  - Robotic exploration of the solar system
T2  - Springer-Praxis books in space exploration
SN  - 9780387493268
AV  - TL788.5 .U55 2007
PY  - 2007///-]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Space robotics
KW  - Space probes
KW  - Outer space
KW  - Exploration
KW  - History
KW  - Solar system
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Table Of Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword; Author's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Mercury: extremes of heat and cold; Venus: a swamp or a greenhouse?; Mars, life and the `canali'; Jupiter: a ball of hydrogen; Saturn, its rings and moons; Uranus and Neptune: outer giants; Pluto: the incredible shrinking planet; Asteroids: those fantastic points of light; Comets: flying sandbanks or dirty snowballs?; Phantoms: Vulcan, trans-Plutonian planets and the like; The beginning; Space race; Humans or robots?; The first `artificial planets'; The first interplanetary probe; The first JPL projects; The first Soviet probes; The first success; Product 2MV; The `Zond' probes; Farewell to the `little green men'; Korolyov's last probes; Solar probes; Together to Venus; A Voyager without sails; A repeat mission; Mars again; Other players; Of landers and orbiters; A new decade; To the surface!; Into the storm; A first look beyond the asteroids; The taste of Venus; The curse of the transistor; Soviet soil from the Red Planet; The planet of contradictions; Hot and hotter; Snowballs will wait; Postcards from Hell; Landing in Utopia; Pigeons, rovers, sniffers; The Venusian fleet; The color of Venus; `Purple Pigeons' from the cold; The grandest tour; The journey of three lifetimes; Grand Tour reborn; The spacecraft that could; Launch and teething troubles; Jupiter: ring, new moons and volcanoes!; The return to Jupiter: life, perhaps?; Saturn and mysterious Titan; The final one-two punch; Dull planet, incredible moon; To a blue planet; The larger perspective; Glossary; Appendices; Chapter references; Further reading; Index
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