Viking Orbiter Views of Mars
Author : Viking Orbiter Imaging Team (U.S.)
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Viking Orbiter Imaging Team (U.S.)
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : American Geophysical Union
Publisher :
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN :
Introductory essays by Viking Project scientist Gerald A. Soffen and Viking Orbiter scientist Conway W. Snyder describe the project, the spacecraft, selection of the Martian landing sites, and the experiments undertaken. The rest of the papers are by scientists involved in the project and comprise a record of the data obtained, the experiments, and their evaluation.
Author : Edward Clinton Ezell
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Mars (Planet)
ISBN :
Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0760373140
With authoritative text and NASA photography and artworks, NASA Missions to Mars tells the story of NASA’s programs to explore the Red Planet—from the first tentative flybys to the present—and offers a glimpse into the future of Mars exploration.
Author : Viking Lander Imaging Team
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 081654686X
Twenty years after the Viking missions of the ’70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period between 1996 and 2003, and it is likely that human explorers will follow soon after--perhaps by the middle of the twenty-first century. When they do, they will owe much to the Mars of romance, to the early pioneers whose discoveries and disappointments are brought to life in The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery. In this timely and vividly written account, William Sheehan traces human fascination with Mars back to the naked-eye observers of the planet. He recalls the early telescopic observers who first made out enigmatic markings and polar caps on its surface. Through lively historical anecdotes, he describes in detail the debate over the so-called canals of Mars, which encouraged speculation that the planet might be inhabited. Finally, Sheehan describes more recent theories about the planet, leading up to the present, when unmanned spacecraft have enabled us to make giant strides in exploration. Well documented and sparked with human interest, this book will be a useful companion and guide in interpreting the barrage of headlines about Mars that is sure to come over the next few years. Amateurs will appreciate the contributions that have been made to Martian studies by people like themselves, and professionals will find much original material that has never before been published. The American Mars Global Surveyor is scheduled for launch in November 1996, and soon after the American Mars Pathfinder will make its way toward the red planet. A Russian mission consisting of an orbiter and two landers will be launched in October 1997. These space travelers will write a whole new chapter in the dramatic story of Mars, a planet whose exploration has only just begun. Astronomy Book Club main selection and selections of Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club.
Author : William R. Corliss
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
This monograph describes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program to explore the planet that most nearly resembles the earth and the search for life on the surface of Mars that the Vikings are scheduled to begin in 1976.
Author : Donald Rapp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 331922249X
A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried out on human missions to Mars, but after 60 years of study, we remain in the early planning stages. The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. Retained from the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return. For each segment, he analyzes requirements for candidate technologies. In this connection, he discusses the status and potential of a wide range of elements critical to a human Mars mission, including life support consumables, radiation effects and shielding, microgravity effects, abort options and mission safety, possible habitats on the Martian surface and aero-assisted orbit entry decent and landing. For any human mission to the Red Planet the possible utilization of any resources indigenous to Mars would be of great value and such possibilities, the use of indigenous resources is discussed at length. He also discusses the relationship of lunar exploratio n to Mars exploration. Detailed appendices describe the availability of solar energy on the Moon and Mars, and the potential for utilizing indigenous water on Mars. The second edition provides extensive updating and additions to the first edition, including many new figures and tables, and more than 70 new references, as of 2015.
Author : Patricia Ann Straat
Publisher : Palmetto Publishing Group
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2018-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781641111508
Author : Larry Crumpler
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0008407274
From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars.