Screen LibraryExploring the planets : a memoir /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 363 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780199671595 0199671591 |
| Index Number: | QB36 |
| CLC: | K835.615.3 |
| Call Number: | K835.615.3/T241 |
| Contents: | Prelude -- Satellites and spires -- The gateway to the planets -- Voyage to Venus -- With Galileo to Jupiter -- Back to Oxford -- Forecasting weather and climate -- The ozone layer and other crises -- Mishaps at Mars -- Operation Saturn -- The days of the comet -- Return to the silent planet -- Marooned on Mercury -- Mars at last -- Ice on the moon -- A beginner's guide to the end of the world -- STanding at the edge of time -- Epilogue. |