Atlas of Neptune
- Authors:
- Garry E. Hunt
- Patrick Moore
- Date Published: May 1994
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521374781
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Giant as it is, Neptune is so remote that it is below naked-eye visibility and so was not discovered until the development of the telescope. As the most distant major planet in the solar system, Neptune was the last to be visited by a spacecraft from Earth. The encounter of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft with Neptune in August 1989 has provided a wealth of new information about the planet, its ghostly rings, remarkable satellites and environment, and has led to some amazing discoveries. This book gives the fascinating historical background to the discovery of Neptune, its satellites and rings and goes on to describe the Voyager mission in detail. This allows the reader to appreciate the dramatic leap in the knowledge and understanding of the Neptunian environment that planetary scientists found from the Voyager flyby. All the latest information is given, illustrated with the definitive pictures from the NASA mission. No more visits by space-probes to the outer planets are likely for several decades; this book therefore represents a timely summary of our knowledge of Neptune of lasting value and enjoyment to professionals and amateurs alike.
Read more- The first atlas of Neptune, its satellites and faint rings
- Latest results from Voyager 2's 1989 flyby
- A lucid and stimulating text by Garry Hunt and Patrick Moore
- Includes many of the best pictures from NASA
- Companion volume to The Atlas of Uranus
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' … this book gives a very readable account and extremely timely summary of our knowledge of the most distant planet yet visited.' Spaceflight
See more reviews' … a useful contribution to our appreciation of Neptune. Gary Hunt and Patrick Moore have put together a fitting tribute to Voyager II and the current outsider of the Solar System in their Atlas of Neptune.' The Observatory
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- Date Published: May 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521374781
- length: 84 pages
- dimensions: 304 x 216 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.572kg
- contains: 35 b/w illus. 22 colour illus. 2 maps 6 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Neptune in the solar system
3. The discovery of Neptune
4. Pre-discovery observations
5. Early theories of Neptune
6. Neptune before Voyager
7. The Voyager vision
Structure of Neptune
8. Magnetosphere of Neptune
9. Rings of Neptune
Satellites of Neptune
10. Beyond Neptune
11. Farewell
12. Voyager 2
Appendix: Data for Neptune
Satellite Data.
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