EAN: 9783319796970

PICTURE THIS! - MICHAEL CARROLL KARTONIERT (TB)

Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend  especially those of planetary sizes and
distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the
group of illustrations in this book  which put scale extraterrestrial objects side by side with
objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example  study the pictures of Earth
floating above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto's CN
Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you
understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later chapters  you will be told how
close the visionaries of the past came to guessing what today's explorers would find.
Astronomer painter Lucien Rudaux's masterpieces of Mars dust storms anticipated Viking and Mars
rover images by nearly a century. Space artist Ludek Pesek envisioned astronauts setting up
camp on the lunar surface in scenes hauntingly similar to photos taken by Apollo astronauts
decades later. But the real benefit of this work is in better grasping the nature of our
universe -- how big it is  now large it is  and how we fit into it.

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