Arlin Crotts (New York Columbia University)

The New Moon

Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating and timely book provides a complete story of the human lunar experience. It presents many interesting but little-known events in lunar science for the first time and will appeal to anyone wanting to know more about the stunning discoveries being uncovered on the Moon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1254g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762243
• ISBN-10: 0521762243
• Artikelnr.: 34427157

Autorenporträt

Arlin Crotts is Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University and has won numerous awards for his work. Having observed objects as distant as ten billion light years and as close as the Moon, he finds the problems of lunar science particularly intriguing.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. The importance of the Moon; 2. First steps; 3. Moon/Mars; 4. An international flotilla; 5. Moon rise from the ashes; 6. Moons past; 7. The pull of the far side; 8. False seas, real seas; 9. Inconstant Moon; 10. Moonlighting; 11. Lunar living room; 12. Lunar power; 13. Stepping stone; 14. Return to Earth; Index.

Rezensionen

'Crotts recounts how our understanding of the Moon has shifted since we briefly touched it ... Fascinating.' BBC Sky at Night Magazine