Atlas of Uranus
- Authors:
- Garry E. Hunt
- Patrick Moore
- Date Published: March 1989
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521343237
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• The first pictorial survey of Uranus, its rings and planets • The results of Voyager 2's 1986 encounter with the Uranus system • 100 illustrations, 30 in colour • Lucid commentary by Garry Hunt and Patrick Moore • Complete historical background to the discovery of Uranus
Read more- Contains many images obtained from the NASA Voyager 2 missions
- Loads of full colour pictures
- Should sell well with new sister book Atlas of Neptune
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- Date Published: March 1989
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521343237
- length: 96 pages
- dimensions: 297 x 210 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.572kg
- contains: 70 b/w illus. 30 colour illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Uranus in the solar system
3. William Herschel
4. The discovery of Uranus
5. Pre-discovery observations
6. Early theories of Uranus
7. The rotation of Uranus
8. Discovery of the rings
9. Space-probes to the planets
10. The voyager space-craft
11. Earlier results from the voyagers
12. Approach to Uranus
13. The magnetosphere of Uranus
14. The rings
15. The structure of Uranus
16. The satellite system
17. The larger satellites
18. Oberon
19. Titania
20. Umbriel
21. Ariel
22. Miranda
23. The new satellites
24. Beyond Uranus
Index.
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