Europa-the Ocean Moon Search for fn Alien Biosphere

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Автор: Richard Creenberg

Название: Europa-the Ocean Moon. Search for fn Alien Biosphere

Издательство: Praxis Publishing Ltd, Chichtster, UK

Год: 2005

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Язык: English

Размер: 59.8 MB

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At its heart, this book is about people and about one of the many remarkable things they do with their evolved mental and physical facilities. Exploring the Solar System, even a small part of it like the neighborhood of Jupiter, involves the coordinated efforts of a great many people with diverse talents, expertise, and abilities. In such a large undertaking, the richness of the human pageant is bound to be as amazing as what we discover about other planets, which is saying a great deal because Jupiter's oceanic moon Europa is far more exciting and interesting than we could have anticipated.

Exploration of Europa began with Galileo's early telescopic discoveries, and Earth-based observations continued for hundreds of years as instruments continually improved. For over a quarter century, starting in 1977, I served on the Imaging Team for the Galileo mission to orbit Jupiter. During that time the Voyager space¬craft gave us our first good look at Europa's surface during its quick fly-by in 1979, and a series of disasters delayed and degraded the Galileo spacecraft, so that it only arrived in orbit around Jupiter, where it would study the satellites for several years, late in 1995.