LIBRARY

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Discovering Mars : a history of observation and exploration of the Red Planet /

William Sheehan, Author ; Jim Bell, Author | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2021

Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we've learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering thro[...]

E-resource

The Pluto system after New Horizons

Alan Stern, Editor ; J. Moore, Editor ; William M. Grundy, Editor ; Leslie A. Young, Editor ; Richard P. Binzel, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2021

"Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for[...]

Beyond Earth's edge : the poetry of spaceflight

Julie Swarstad Johnson, Editor ; Christopher Cokinos, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2020

Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight is a trailblazing anthology of poetry that spans from the dawn of the space age to the imagined futures of the universe. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and priva[...]

Discovering Pluto : exploration at the edge of the solar system /

Dale P. Cruikshank, Author ; William Sheehan, Author | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2019

Discovering Pluto is an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in July 2[...]

Enceladus and the icy moons of Saturn

Paul M. Schenk, Editor ; Roger N. Clark, Editor ; Carly J.A Howett, Editor ; Anne J. Verbiscer, Editor ; Hunter J. Waite, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 2018

Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn brings together nearly eighty of the world's top experts to establish what we currently understand about Saturn's moons, while building the framework for the highest-priority questions to be addressed throug[...]

Protostars and planets, VI

Henrik Beuther, Editor ; Ralf S. Klessen, Editor ; Cornelis P. Dullemond, Editor ; Th. Henning, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2014

"This volume integrates the cross-disciplinary aspects of this broad field. Covering a wide range of scales, from the formation of large clouds in our Milky Way galaxy down to small chondrules in our solar system, it takes an encompassing view w[...]

Comparative climatology of terrestrial planets

Stephen J. Mackwell, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2013

"Through the contributions of more than sixty leading experts in the field, Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets sets forth the foundations for this emerging new science and brings the reader to the forefront of our current understandi[...]

Exploring Mars : chronicles from a decade of discovery

Scott Hubbard, Author | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2011

Exoplanets

Sara Seager, Editor ; Renee Dotson ; Lunar and Planetary Institute | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2010

The solar system beyond Neptune

M. Antonietta Barucci ; et al. | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2008

Protostars and planets, V

Bo Reipurth, Editor ; D. ; (David) Jewitt, Editor ; Klaus Keil, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2007

The last of the great observatories : Spitzer and the era of faster, better, cheaper at NASA

G. H. Rieke | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2006

"From conception to launch, this fascinating volume tells the inside story of the heartache and triumph of the Spitzer Telescope, the infrared couterpart to the famous Hubble Space Telescope. It is full of insight on the challenge of implementin[...]

Asteroids III

William F. Jr. Bottke | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2002

Part I: Introduction Part 2: Remote observations Part 3: In situ exploration Part 4: Evolutionary processes Part 5: History and interrelations with other solar system bodies Part VI: Databases

Origin of the Earth and Moon

R.M. Canup, Editor ; K. Righter, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | The University of Arizona space science series | 2000

Protostars and planets, IV

V. Mannings, Editor ; A. P. Boss, Editor ; S. S. Russell, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 2000

The Moon and the western imagination

Scott L. Montgomery | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1999

The moon is at once a face with a thousand expressions and the archetypal planet. Throughout history it has been gazed upon by people of every culture in every walk of life. From early perceptions of the Moon as an abode of divine forces, humani[...]

Hazards due to comets and asteroids

Tom Gehrels, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1994

Protostars and planets III

Eugene H. Levy ; Jonathan I. Lunine | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1993

Resources of near-earth space

John S. Lewis, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1993

E-resource

To a rocky moon : a geologist's history of lunar exploration

Don E. Wilhelms | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1993

E-resource

Mars

Hugh H. Kieffer, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1992

Venus, geology, geochemistry, and geophysics

V. L. Barsukov, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1992

World in the sky : planetary discovery from earliest times through Voyager and Magellan

William Sheehan | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1992

Clyde Tombaugh : discoverer of planet Pluto

David H. Levy | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1991

Solar interior and atmosphere

Mildred Shapley Matthews, Editor ; C. V. Livingston, Editor ; Arthur N. Cox, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1991

The sun in time

Mildred Shapley Matthews, Editor ; M. S. Giampapa, Editor ; C. P. Sonett, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1991

Uranus

Jay T. Bergstralh, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1991

SETI pioneers : scientists talk about their search for extraterrestrial intelligence /

David W. Swift, Author | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | 1990

Origin and evolution of planetary and satellite atmospheres

S. K. Atreya, Editor ; J. B. Pollack, Editor ; Mildred Shapley Matthews, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1989

Asteroids II

Richard P. Binzel, Editor ; Tom Gehrels, Editor | Tucson : University of Arizona Press | Space science series | 1989