Dieser Autor bringt eine einzigartige Perspektive ein, die technische Expertise mit einer Leidenschaft für die Mondexploration verbindet. Mit einem tiefen Verständnis für Ingenieurwesen, das er sich während seiner Karriere in der Kommunikation und in einer Schlüsselrolle im Apollo-Mondlandeprogramm angeeignet hat, wendet der Autor sein Fachwissen an, um die Geheimnisse des Mondes zu entschlüsseln. Seine Arbeit mit digitalisierten Bildern von Lunar Orbiter zeigt seine Fähigkeit, historisches Material zu verbessern und einem modernen Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Laufende Forschungen zur Mondrückseite versprechen weitere faszinierende Entdeckungen.
Exploring Mars by Rover
The Mars Curiosity Rover serves as a sophisticated mobile lab, enhancing our understanding of Mars' geology and potential habitability. This book chronicles its journey, featuring vivid images and insights into the Martian landscape, while also detailing the challenges faced by the rover and its scientific team.
Images and Topographic Maps from LRO, GRAIL, and Kaguya
Additionally, the features are presented in the estimated chronological sequence of their creation, based on a consideration of stratigraphy (overlapping layers from neighboring features) and the relative degradation of surface features.
Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the core of the Moon. This book summarizes the author’s successful search for an ancient impact feature, the Near Side Megabasin of the Moon and the extensions to impact theory needed to find it. The implications of this ancient event are developed to answer many of the questions about the history of the Moon.
The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today’s computer technology. Byrne’s superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.