Jim Bell

An award-winning Cornell astronomer traces the story of the men and women behind the Voyager spacecraft mission to share insight into their motivations, describe the human artifacts the first spacecraft contains and discuss the mission's potential. By the author of Postcards From Mars.

Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

The Interstellar Age

Hundreds of deep space missions since the 1960s have captured stunning photographs of the cosmos. Many of these scientific images can also be classified as art. This book highlights more than 100 examples, revealing the splendor of our universe. This book is a gallery of human accomplishment that celebrates the scientists and engineers who push civilization—including the ways that we produce and experience art—beyond the physical limits of our planet. The photographs, selected by Dr. Jim Bell, represent some of the finest examples of the art of deep space exploration, most of them involving high-tech robotic emissaries. The images are loosely organized by distance from the Earth, so that readers will slowly travel on a journey farther and farther away from home, ultimately voyaging out to vistas of the farthest-known places in the universe.

Visions from the Frontier of Deep Space Exploration

The Art of the Cosmos

Spanning history, this stunning volume chronicles our home planet in 250 beautifully illustrated milestones, including the oceans' formation, deadly volcanoes, and the first perilous polar expeditions. The Earth Book provides a tour of the events, processes, people, and places that have shaped our knowledge of our planet, covering everything from physics, chemistry, and biology to astronomy, public policy, and climate science. This unique resource will enhance our understanding of Earth as a complex interdependent system.

From the Beginning to the End of Our Planet, 250 Milestones in the History of Earth Science

The Earth Book

Presents a series of 250 significant events in the history of astronomy and space exploration, from the original formation of the galaxies, to the space mission to the planet Mars, to speculation about the end of the universe.

From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space and Astronomy

The Space Book

30 Years of Discoveries and Images

Hubble Legacy

Jacqueline Mitton

An account of NASA's dramatic NEAR mission to the asteroid Eros by scientists involved.

NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at Eros

Asteroid Rendezvous

David Carson

Stephen Brown

Is marketing coming to an end? The authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put forward a variety of visions of marketing in the twenty first century.

Eschatology, Escapology and the Illusion of the End

Marketing Apocalypse

Il fantastico viaggio delle sonde Voyager è iniziato nel 1977. Oggi, dopo quasi quarant’anni, la Voyager 1 e la sonda gemella Voyager 2 sono i nostri emissari più lontani, a una di stanza di oltre 18 miliardi di chilometri dalla Terra. Ideate per realizzare un Grand Tour del Sistema Solare, oltre la Luna, oltre Marte, Giove e Saturno, e addirittura fino allo spazio interstellare, le missioni Voyager rappresentano uno dei più grandi successi dell’esplorazione spaziale: la sonda Voyager 1 ha lasciato il Sistema Solare nel 2012 e la Voyager 2 la seguirà nei prossimi anni. Nell’era dei viaggi interstellari, Jim Bell, stella nel firmamento degli scienziati planetari e intimo conoscitore delle sonde spaziali, ci racconta la loro storia e la passione che ha guidato e che continua a guidare i membri dello straordinario team che le ha progettate, costruite, manovrate, e che ancora oggi riceve i loro dati.

I quarant'anni del programma Voyager

L'era dei viaggi interstellari

William Sheehan

A leading historian of astronomy and a leading planetary scientist who works at the forefront of space exploration provide a comprehensive history of the solar system's most alluring planet beyond Earth. William Sheehan and Jim Bell chronicle how ancient watchers of the skies attended to Mars's red color and baffling movements, how three and a half centuries of telescopic observations added vistas and controversies around possible seas and continents and canals, and how the current era of exploration by flyby, orbiter, lander, and rover spacecraft have conjured for us the reality of a world of towering shield volcanoes, vast canyons, ancient dry riverbeds--and even possible evidence of past life. A unique collaboration between two authors on the forefront of Mars explorations, past and future, Discovering Mars provides an ambitious, detailed, and evocative account of humanity's enduring fascination with the Red Planet.

A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet

Discovering Mars

Achieving Eco-nomic Security on Spaceship Earth

The present volume of essays examines the extent to which the end of marketing is nigh. The authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put forward a variety of visions of marketing in the twenty first century. Ranging from narratology to feminism, these suggestions are always enlightening, often provocative and occasionally outrageous. Maketing Apocalypse is required reading for anyone interested in the future of marketing.

El Libro de la astronomía

A photographic survey of the surface of Mars features more than 150 full-color prints and four large-width gatefold images taken by mobile robots, and discusses what these landmark missions have revealed.

The First Photographer on the Red Planet

Postcards from Mars

Presents a history of the exploration of the Moon along with a collection of 3-D images that can be seen with the provided special glasses.

The Lunar Surface Comes to Life

Moon 3-D

The Space Book Revised and Updated

Kim Stanley Robinson

Madeline Ashby

Ramez Naam

Vandana Singh

Karl Schroeder

Steven Barnes

Clark A. Miller

Roland Lehoucq

Eileen Gunn

Deji Bryce Olukotun

Carter Scholz

Sara Imari Walker

Lawrence Dritsas

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Emma Frow

Andrew D. Maynard

Steve Ruff

William K. Storey

G. Pascal Zachary

A Collection of Space Futures

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

Der Mars - eine fremde Welt, viele Millionen Kilometer von uns entfernt. Aber die Raumsonden Spirit und Opportunity haben den Roten Planeten erreicht und unglaubliche Bilder von dessen Oberfläche zur Erde zurückgesandt. Dieses Buch präsentiert die eindrucksvollsten Aufnahmen - planetarische Landschaftsfotografie vom Feinsten! - und begleitet sie mit den spannenden Erläuterungen von Jim Bell, dem leitenden Fotografen der Mission. Ein Text-Bild-Band aus erster Hand im großen Sonderformat. Ein "Wow!"-Buch für alle Astro- und Weltraum-Fans. Die Reise der beiden Roboterfahrzeuge Spirit und Opportunity zum Mars und ihre nun schon viele Jahre währende Kundschaftertätigkeit dort zählen zu den aufregendsten Unternehmungen des modernen Raumfahrtzeitalters. Ihre Landung mit einer verwirrenden Vielfalt wissenschaftlicher Instrumente und je einer einmaligen Stereo-Panoramakamera an Bord war der Höhepunkt von Jahren wissenschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungsarbeit. Die Ingenieure hatten erwartet, dass die Kameras auf ihren solarbetriebenen Rovern etwa drei Monate lang Bilder aufnehmen würden. Keiner wagte zu hoffen, dass diese unglaublichen Roboter nach vier Jahren immer noch die Ebenen und Berge des Mars erforschen würden. Bis heute haben sie über 200.000 Bilder nach Hause geschickt; einige benötigten mehrere Tage, bis sie uns durch den Weltraum über die riesige Distanz erreicht haben. Schon zu Beginn der Mission wurde Jim Bell die schwere Aufgabe übertragen, die Welt mit diesen historischen Ansichten zu versorgen. Jedes Farbbild, das vom Mars zur Erde kam, wanderte zuerst durch sein Notebook, bevor es verschickt oder gedruckt wurde. Jetzt hat er die Auswahl und Bearbeitung dieser Bilder – manche 20.000 Pixel breit – für das großformatige Jahrhundertbuch, das sie verdienen, fertiggestellt. Für die deutsche Ausgabe hat Jim Bell nicht nur ein neues Nachwort verfasst, sondern auch 5 spektakuläre neue Aufnahmen vom Mars aus den letzten Monaten (bis Juli 2007!) hinzugefügt. Vier der atemberaubendsten hyperrealistischen Panoramabildern sind auf großartigen, mehr als einen Meter breiten ausklappbaren Seiten gedruckt. Doch auch Fotos von Mikroskopkameras sind in dem Band zu sehen: Sie zeigen Nahaufnahmen von fremdartigen und doch vertrauten Felsen und Böden, über die die Rover Spirit und Opportunity gerollt sind. Nie zuvor hat ein menschliches Werkzeug so tiefschürfende Gedanken über unseren Platz im Universum in uns ausgelöst. Postkarten vom Mars ist ein Meisterstück sowohl der Kunst als auch der Wissenschaft. Zum ersten Mal, seit es Leben auf der Erde gibt, können wir erfahren, wie es ist, auf der Oberfläche eines anderen Planeten zu sein. Jim Bells Buch eröffnet uns dieses einmalige Fenster in Zeit und Raum. "An amazing picture book by the man in charge of the rover mission cameras on the planet's surface. The first book to give a real experience of being on another planet."

Der erste Fotograf auf dem Roten Planeten

Postkarten vom Mars

Phenomenal new observations from Earth-based telescopes and Mars-based orbiters, landers, and rovers have dramatically advanced our understanding of the past environments on Mars. These include the first global-scale infrared and reflectance spectroscopic maps of the surface, leading to the discovery of key minerals indicative of specific past climate conditions; the discovery of large reservoirs of subsurface water ice; and the detailed in situ roving investigations of three new landing sites. This an important, new overview of the compositional and mineralogic properties of Mars since the last major study published in 1992. An exciting resource for all researchers and students in planetary science, astronomy, space exploration, planetary geology, and planetary geochemistry where specialized terms are explained to be easily understood by all who are just entering the field.

Composition, Mineralogy and Physical Properties

The Martian Surface

Jim Bell

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