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Planetfall: New Solar System Visions New Solar System Visions

9781419704222

Planetfall: New Solar System Visions New Solar System Visions

  • ISBN 13:

    9781419704222

  • ISBN 10:

    1419704222

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 10/01/2012
  • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Summary

Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson's masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the boulder-strewn red deserts of Mars; studied Saturn's immaculate rings; and shown us our own ravishing Earth, a blue-white orb with a disturbingly thin atmosphere, as it plunges deeper into ecological crisis. These new images are the subject of Benson's Planetfall, a truly revelatory book that uses its large page size to reproduce the greatest achievements in contemporary planetary photography as never before.

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