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049 _aBAUN_MERKEZ
050 0 4 _aTL788.5
_b.U55 2007
100 1 _aUlivi, Paolo,
_d1971-
245 1 0 _aRobotic exploration of the solar system /
_cPaolo Ulivi ; with David M. Harland.
246 3 0 _aExploration of the solar system
264 1 _aBerlin :
_bSpringer ;
_c[2007-]
264 1 _aChichester, UK :
_bPublished in association with Praxis Pub.,
_c[2007-]
264 4 _c©2007-
300 _avolumes :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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490 1 _aSpringer-Praxis books in space exploration
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 0 _tTable Of Contents:
_tList of illustrations
_tList of tables
_tForeword
_tAuthor's preface
_tAcknowledgments
_tIntroduction
_tMercury: extremes of heat and cold
_tVenus: a swamp or a greenhouse?
_tMars, life and the `canali'
_tJupiter: a ball of hydrogen
_tSaturn, its rings and moons
_tUranus and Neptune: outer giants
_tPluto: the incredible shrinking planet
_tAsteroids: those fantastic points of light
_tComets: flying sandbanks or dirty snowballs?
_tPhantoms: Vulcan, trans-Plutonian planets and the like
_tThe beginning
_tSpace race
_tHumans or robots?
_tThe first `artificial planets'
_tThe first interplanetary probe
_tThe first JPL projects
_tThe first Soviet probes
_tThe first success
_tProduct 2MV
_tThe `Zond' probes
_tFarewell to the `little green men'
_tKorolyov's last probes
_tSolar probes
_tTogether to Venus
_tA Voyager without sails
_tA repeat mission
_tMars again
_tOther players
_tOf landers and orbiters
_tA new decade
_tTo the surface!
_tInto the storm
_tA first look beyond the asteroids
_tThe taste of Venus
_tThe curse of the transistor
_tSoviet soil from the Red Planet
_tThe planet of contradictions
_tHot and hotter
_tSnowballs will wait
_tPostcards from Hell
_tLanding in Utopia
_tPigeons, rovers, sniffers
_tThe Venusian fleet
_tThe color of Venus
_t`Purple Pigeons' from the cold
_tThe grandest tour
_tThe journey of three lifetimes
_tGrand Tour reborn
_tThe spacecraft that could
_tLaunch and teething troubles
_tJupiter: ring, new moons and volcanoes!
_tThe return to Jupiter: life, perhaps?
_tSaturn and mysterious Titan
_tThe final one-two punch
_tDull planet, incredible moon
_tTo a blue planet
_tThe larger perspective
_tGlossary
_tAppendices
_tChapter references
_tFurther reading
_tIndex
650 0 _aAstronautics.
650 0 _aSpace robotics.
650 0 _aSpace probes.
651 0 _aOuter space
_xExploration.
651 0 _aOuter space
_xExploration
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSolar system.
700 1 _aHarland, David M.
_q(David Michael),
_d1955-
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_aSpringer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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