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200 10$aPicture This! $eGrasping the Dimensions of Time and Space /$fby Michael Carroll
205   $a1st ed. 2016.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (205 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a3-319-24905-3 
327   $aPreface: The Long and the Short of It -- Part One: Our Place in the Cosmos -- Chapter One: Asteroids, Comets, and Our Cosmic Landscape -- Chapter Two: Ice Dwarfs and Tiny Moons -- Chapter Three: The Weirdest Moons, Large and Small -- Chapter Four: A Tour of the Planets -- Chapter Five: Bright, Shining Stars -- Chapter Six: Nebulae, Galaxies, and the Edge of All Things -- Chapter Seven: Understanding Scale in the Universe -- Part Two: Our Place in Time -- Chapter Eight: The Worlds Around Us -- Chapter Nine: Space Travel -- Index.
330   $aAstronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put, in scale, side by side extraterrestrial objects with objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example, study the pictures of Earth floating above Jupiter?s Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto?s CN Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later chapters, you will be told how close the visionaries of the past came to guessing what today?s explorers would find. Astronomer/painter Lucien Rudaux?s masterpieces of Mars dust storms anticipated Viking and Mars rover images by nearly a century. Space artist Ludek Pesek envisioned astronauts setting up camp on the lunar surface in scenes hauntingly similar to photos taken by Apollo astronauts decades later. But the real benefit of this work is in better grasping the nature of our universe -- how big it is, now large it is, and how we fit into it.
606   $aAstronomy
606   $aAstrophysics
606   $aPlanetology
606   $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009
606   $aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22006
606   $aPlanetology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G18010
615  0$aAstronomy.
615  0$aAstrophysics.
615  0$aPlanetology.
615 14$aPopular Science in Astronomy.
615 24$aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
615 24$aPlanetology.
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