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This is a history of human efforts to understand the mechanics of the solar system, reaching from classical Greece to the present. By the time of Isaac Newton, there was reason to hope that the stability of the solar system could be proven and that…

 Introduction is by Carl Sagan and there are many color photographs and other illustrations. Book is written by 21 eminent scientists, men who designed the famous space missions of the 1970's.

"A well-illustrated tour of our solar system...The authors' discussions of what we don't know about these phenomena are bound to arouse the curiosity of the general reader, and their explanations of what we do know are supplemented with informative…

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Long believed to have been cold, dead, and dry for aeons, there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the…

Launched in 1977 NASA's Voyager mission to the four gas giants and beyond is one of history's most iconic, monumental, and scientifically relevant journeys of exploration. Two robotic spacecraft embarked on a voyage to answer the very same cosmic…

Het heelal wemelt van de meest vreemde planeten. Sommige zijn compleet bedekt met water, andere bestaan voor een groot gedeelte uit diamant en weer andere lijken als twee druppels water op de aarde. Nieuwe ontdekkingen van tot de verbeelding…

Chronicles the momentous ten month period of discovery between 1995 and 1996 that revealed no less than five new solar systems, with profound implications for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence