04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
...list of this book appears to cover the planets of the solar system one by one but a second glance shows that the ... the author substitutes some of the better known moons of the solar system, such as Titan and Enceladus… and despite its downgrading by ...
26 February 2018
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Since the beginning of the Space Age, space history books have gone through a sort of evolution: the early ones described the technology and the missions; later, more professional texts analysed political motives in a Cold War context; and then, in ...
31 December 2018
Discovering Pluto: exploration at the edge of the solar system
The International Astronomical Union may no longer regard Pluto as a planet, but that certainly hasn’t decreased its attraction for scientists or authors; in fact, it may even have enhanced its credentials. As the authors opine, “Except perhaps for ...
01 October 2019
Finding our Place in the Solar System
In the words of its subtitle, this book tells “The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution”. In an early section, the authors consider why anyone should read their book: “After all”, they say, “you already know the punchline: the Earth really ...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...burns to slingshot it out of the ecliptic plane of the Solar System so that it can capture close-up images of never before seen... that the planets, moons and minor bodies of the Solar System orbit in – by following a constantly changing elliptical path...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...); and galactic cosmic rays, which are high-energy protons and heavy ions from outside our solar system. Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne placing some of SCK CEN/DLR radiation detectors inside a Colombus module on the...
