Voyager's grand tour : to the outer planets and beyond
- Title
- Voyager's grand tour : to the outer planets and beyond / Henry C. Dethloff and Ronald A. Schorn.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, [2003]
- Author
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- Description
- x, 278 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Explores what Voyager 1 and 2 have taught scientists about the solar system since they were launched in 1977 to explore the planets and sun.
- Subject
- Contents
- Foreword / Edward C. Stone, Ellis D. Miner -- From Earth to the Edge of the Universe -- A Grand Tour of the Outer Planets -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Neptune -- Metamorphosis -- Mariner Jupiter-Saturn '77 -- Voyager -- Voyager Science -- Launch: August/September 1977 -- First Encounters: Strange New Worlds -- Saturn's System: Ice Worlds and Rings -- Uranus, Neptune, and Beyond -- Termination Shock -- Voyager Project Managers.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-271) and index.