Solar System

Hey, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0304359947 / ISBN 13: 9780304359943

Edité par Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002

A propos de cet article

No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small tear to upper rear spine corner and traces of storage. 272pp. Detailed descriptions of the moon and planets which make up our Solar System - and their exploration, navigation and proplusion systems. Very well illustrated. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9 x 7.5 inches.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Solar System
• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0304359947
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780304359943
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science / Engineering / Maths

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Synopsis

Our immediate neighbourhood in space is stranger than we think. On Jupiter winds reach speeds of over 6,000 mph. Venus has been viewed as a 'planet-wide catastrophe ...a thoroughly nasty place'. Ice volcanoes on Neptune. Saturn, in addition to its rings, has 30 moons - 12 of them discovered only last year. In addition to these peculiarities it now appears that the Solar System may also harbour life on Mars and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. As our exploration of the Solar System gathers momentum this book explores what we have discovered already, what we might discover next, and explains the technologies, from telescopes to robot probes, which gather this information.

À propos de l?auteur

Nigel Hey is a former Senior Administrator at Sandia National Laboratories, largest scientific research institutions in the US. He sold his first short story to the BBC at the age of 11, and now writes primarily about science and science policy for the national and international media. A contributing author for THE SCIENCE BOOK, he is also the author of 3 previously published books and the editor of several reference works. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of British Science Writers. Among numerous other jobs, he served as an information officer during the launch of the Project Galileo spacecraft.