Название: The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron and other SCT Telescopes
Автор:  Jeremy Cook
Издательство: Sрringer
Год: 2005
Страниц: 128
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 mb
ISBN: 1852337494
Язык: Английский
SCT and Maksutov telescopes - which of course includes the best-selling models from Meade, Celestron, and other important manufacturers - reverse the visual image left for right. It is extremely difficult to identify lunar features at the eyepiece of one of these instruments using a conventional atlas. The human brain just doesn’t cope well with trying to compare the real thing with a map that is a mirror-image of it. This new SCT version of Hatfield’s famous lunar atlas solves the problem. Ph ... Читать дальше »

                   

Название: Soviet and Russian lunar exploration
Автор:  Brian Harvey
Издательство: Sрringer
Год: 2006
Страниц: 344
Формат: PDF
Размер:3 6 mb
ISBN: 0387218963
Язык: Английский
This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth’s orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they were tested. He concludes that political mismanagement rather than technology prevented the Soviet Union from landing cosmonauts on the moon. The book is well timed fo ... Читать дальше »

                    

Название: Origins and Evolution of Life: An Astrobiological Perspective
Автор:  Muriel Gargaud, Purificación López-Garcìa, Hervé Martin
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2011
Страниц: 546
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 mb
ISBN: 052176131X
Язык: Английский
Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this challenging theme. The text explores the latest research on the conditions and processes that led to the emergence of life on Earth and, by exte ... Читать дальше »