Название: Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: University Of Chicago Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 265
ISBN: 0226470784
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3  MB
Язык Английский
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet—a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and chall ... Читать дальше »

                    

Название: Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation, 2nd edition
Автор: Ian S. McLean
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2010
Страниц: 552
ISBN: 3642095321
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12,8   MB
Язык Английский
The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments that have taken place in astronomical detectors and instrumentation in recent years – from the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) in 1970 to the current era of very large telescopes, such as the Keck 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii with their laser guide-star adaptive optics which rival the image quality of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Authored by one of t ... Читать дальше »