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Jean Meeus’s third book of his Morsels series continues his tradition of highlighting fascinating celestial trivia about the Moon, eclipses, planetary motions, and more. Find out why total eclipses never correspond with extreme lunar perigee or…

Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of essays explaining the fundamentals of the most important maths concepts you really need to know. Richard Elwes profiles the groundbreaking and front-of-mind discoveries that have had a profound…

Dit boek bestaat uit 13 stukjes van twee pagina's naast elkaar waarin met woord en beeld, meestal foto's, een fenomeen wordt toegelicht en geïllustreerd. Naast de toelichtende tekst krijgt de lezer telkens nog in een geel vakje een concreet stukje…

MARSWALK ONE: First Steps on a New Planet addresses the question of why we should embark on a journey to Mars, documenting what the first human crew will do when they place their feet in the red dust of the planet. The book also addresses why we…

On Mars the sky is pink, the polar caps are made of dry ice, the volcanoes are 17 miles high, and there is a little rock named Lozenge. Paul Raeburn's new book about Mars is full of fun facts like these. Published by the National Geographic Society,…

SchillingWat zoeken al die ruimteschepen op Mars?Hoe is het om op Mars rond te lopen?Is er water op Mars?Hoe komt Mars aan z'n rode kleur?Waarom heet Mars Mars?En hoe zit het met die marsmannetjes?Govert Schilling geeft antwoord op alle vragen over…

 

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…