行星：穿越太阳系的旅程（附200余幅图片）The Planets: A Journey Through the Solar System
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作者： Giles Sparrow 著
出 版 社： Quercus
出版时间： 2006-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 224印刷时间： 2007/02/01开本：印次：纸张： 铜版纸I S B N ： 9781905204267包装： 精装内容简介
With nearly 200 spectacular images, The Planets launches itself on an awe-inspiring tour of our celestial neighbourhood. Travelling outwards from the Sun, every planet is visited in a journey that ultimately extends a full light year into space, to the very fringes of the Solar System where the Sun is no longer the brightest star in the sky. It surveys the scorched, volcanic plains of Venus,"follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, touches down On the asteroid Eros, plunges through Titan's atmosphere with the Huygens probe, and reveals Pluto to be just one of a myriad of ice worlds that lurk beyond Neptune's orbit.
Mankind's fascination with the planets has lasted millennia, but only in the last few decades has their full glory been revealed - unveiled by a fleet of interplanetary probes. And the closer we look, the more wonderful they are: Venus's clouds are laced with sulphuric acid; water once flowed over Mars's deserts; Jupiter's storms rage for centuries at near-supersonic speeds; Saturn is surrounded
by a commonwealth of exotic moons; and diamonds may rain from Neptune's turbulent blue skies.
As our robotic scouts hurtle through space and our telescopes grow ever more powerful, they have revealed the Solar System to be more vibrant, startling and
populous than we ever imagined. We live in a new Age of Discovery and the gallery of strikingly beautiful images on display in this book are without doubt its
most precious jewels.
作者简介：Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He has acted as a consultant and contributor on numerous popular science books, including Universe (Dorling Kindersley 2005). He is the author of The Universe and How To See It (Reader's Digest, 2001) and Cosmos (Quercus, 2006).
目录
Unveiling the Solar System
Sun
Solar granulation
Extreme Sun
The quiet Sun
The active Sun
Solar prominence
Spicules
Regular sunspots
Irregular sunspots
Coronal Mass Ejection
Solar Flare
Mercury
Mercury's limb
Caloris Basin
Venus
Venus globe 0
Venus globe 90
Venus globe 180
Venus globe 270
Eistla Regio
Sif and Gula Mons
Maat Mons
Sapas Mons
Pancake domes
Arachnoid
Latona Oorona and Bali Chasma
Pancake domes
Danilova, Howe and Aglaonice
Dickinson Crater
Earth
Earth without cloud
Himalayan Mountains
Atlas Mountains
Death Valley
Pampas Luxsar
Amazon Rainforest
Bering Strait
Patagonian Ice Field
Byrd Glacier
Grand Erg Oriental
Rub al Khali
Chicxulub Crater
Shoemaker Crater
Cloud Streets
Hurricane Isabel
Aurorae from space
Moon
North polar region
North polar mineral map
Lunar far side
South Pole-Aitken Basin
Earthrise over the Moon
Copernicus and Eratosthenes
Sea of Tranquillity
Astronaut footprint
Shorty Crater
Taurus-Littrow
Aridaeus Rille
Hadley Rille
Mars
Asteroids
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Ice Worlds
Glossary
Index
Pichure Credits
