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Atlas of Neptune (Hardcover)

by Garry E. Hunt (Author), Patrick Moore (Author) "Five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - have been known since very ancient times ..." (more)
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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 ' ... 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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' ... this book gives a very readable account and extremely timely summary of our knowledge of the most distant planet yet visited.' Spaceflight

' ... 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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5.0 out of 5 stars The authoritative guide to Neptune, Oct 15 2000
After their superb atlases of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, Hunt and Moore delight us once again with an "everything we know about" book, this time on the farthest of the four gas giants, Neptune.

Even more so than its predecessors, this work is primarily based on the data returned by Voyager 2 in its August, 1989 flyby, which resulted in the discovery of the "Great Dark Spot", of new minor satellites, and gave us spectacular close-ups of the surface of Neptune's sole giant moon, Triton, and its strange "cantalope terrain". All of these marvels are reproduced in full color, making this book as visually appealing as it is intellectually stimulating. Sadly, since no further missions to Neptune are planned, this will probably be the state-of-the-art of our knowledge of Neptune for some years to come, making this book a worthy investment.

A historical overview of the discovery and telescopic exploration of Neptune and a brief technical discussion of Voyager 2's mission and the unique technical challenges it faced during the Neptune encounter complete this work. A wonderful book that should not be missing in any astronomical library.

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