Evans B. NASA's Voyager Missions...Solar System..Beyond 2ed 2022 torrent

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2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration and our collective imagination. This heavily revised commemorative book takes a comprehensive look at their incredible achievements, future potential and overall legacy.
Chronicled herein is an epic journey to unveil the mysterious outer reaches of the Solar System for the first time. The book recounts the Voyagers’ travels through the asteroid belt and past the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn, as well as Voyager 2’s forays near the distant ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Each chapter details in full the game-changing scientific data and glorious imagery they sent back to Earth.
This new edition incorporates all the new data we have learned in the nearly 20 years since its original publication, discussing how the knowledge first gleaned with Voyager has been built upon in subsequent decades by Cassini, Juno and New Horizons.
The Voyager probes captured imaginations around the world; now is an opportune time to reflect on their unparalleled quest across the edges of the Solar System and the enigmatic interstellar medium beyond.
List of Illustrations
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Wanderers
Divine origins
Divine retributions
“So unlooked-for and so novel”
A larger solar system
“With the point of his pen”
Scandals and other worlds
New perspectives
Chance of Three Lifetimes
To explore new oceans
Of Grand Tours and paths seldom crossed
Rise and fall of the four TOPS
From Mariner to Voyager
Into the great wide open
A machine of many senses
Troubled beginnings
Sailing the solar wind
Into the Realm of Jove
“Wonderful discovery”
Harsh mistress
Of storms, spots and rings
A pristine world of water
Siblings separated at birth
Onward to Saturn
Lord of the Rings
Glimpses of an early Earth
Brutalised youths
Worlds of ice and rock
Million-mile racetracks
Planet in a bathtub
Worlds of darkness and light
Divergent paths
Bullseye Uranus
Tragedy and opportunity
An ice giant, bedecked with rings
As dark as coal
A different Uranus
Wild Neptune
Last planetary call
Close encounters
An active world
Origins lost in time
A Message from Humanity
“That’s us”
Searching for the edge
Mutterings from home
Bibliography
Index