An overview of the exploration of the solar system, from Sputnik I in 1957 to Voyager's encounter with Neptune in August 1989. It is illustrated with American and Russian space photographs, including images of Neptune, a planet three billion miles away. The author, Patrick Moore, is probably the best known British scientist and his TV programme "The Sky at Night", together with his TV commentaries on space missions and his various books, have helped to popularize astronomy.
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70 colour photographs, 15 b&w photographs
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Höhe: 276 mm
Breite: 219 mm
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978-0-304-34088-0 (9780304340880)
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To other worlds; our part of the universe; the sun's family; lunas, rangers, orbiters and surveyors; exploring the moon; the strange world of Venus; mariner to Mercury; messengers to Mars; pioneers and voyagers at Jupiter; Saturn; Voyager 2 at Uranus; Neptune - the last target; rendezvous with Halley's comet; into the future.
