Exploring the planets : (Record no. 338343)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199671595 (hbk)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0199671591 (hbk)
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 520.92
Item number TAY.E
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Taylor, F. W.,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Exploring the planets :
Remainder of title a memoir /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Fred Taylor, Halley Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 363 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing. Exploring the Planets offers a personal account on how the space programme evolved. It begins in the era of the first blurry views of our Earth as seen from space, and ends with current plans for sophisticated robots on places as near as our neighbours Venus and Mars and as far away as the rainy lakelands of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. Examining the scientific goals of these complex voyages of discovery, and the joys and hardships of working to achieve them. The Space Age is now about 50 years old and for those lucky enough to be part of it at its inception, it's filled a worklong lifetime. Today, several satellites around the Earth have studied the atmosphere and the climate using instruments on board that the author helped design and build. 'Deep space' missions were embarked upon to visit the planets: all of the major bodies (six planets, the Moon and minor bodies, asteroids and comets) of the classical Solar System have been scrutinised close-up by experiments built in various laboratories worldwide. Most of the narrative is based on the author's experiences at the world's space agencies, research labs, and conferences, and at other places as diverse as Cape Canaveral and No. 10 Downing Street--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astrophysicists
Geographic subdivision England
Form subdivision Biography.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astrophysicists.
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        Reference Dept. of Geology Dept. of Geology Processing Center 27/11/2019   520.92 TAY.E GEO4715 27/11/2019 27/11/2019 Book