Isbn: 9780062655868 - the mission: a true story – the determined team's odyssey to explore europa's habitable ocean and find life beyond earth (10 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. . Masterful." NatureA 'magnificent' (Scientific American), genre-defying narrativeof the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space missionto Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in oursolar systemIn thespirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant masterclass of creative nonfiction that reveals how a motley, determined few expandedthe horizon of human achievement. When scientists discovered thefirst ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable " and"How do we get there " To answer the first, they had to solve the second, andso began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa,the ocean moon of Jupiter.Standing in their way: NASA,fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which neversaw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated on going to the moon orMarsanywhere, really, to give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia,who wanted instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guardsEuropa in a pulsing, rippling radiation belta halo of death whose conditionsare like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear bomb.The Mission is the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern spaceexploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of scientists who studythe solar system's mysterious outer planets. David W. Brown chronicles theremarkable saga of how Europa was won, and what it takes to get thingsdoneboth down here, and up there.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnDavid W. Brown is a freelance writer whose nonfiction appears frequently in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. His work can also be found in Scientific American.