Unlocking the moon's secrets : from Galileo to giant impact /
"The Moon appears to be an open book, the only heavenly body whose surface features we can see with our naked eye. As early as the 1840s, scientists had made maps of the Moon more detailed than those for many regions of our own planet. Yet to discover the cause of the Moon's craters took t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The Moon appears to be an open book, the only heavenly body whose surface features we can see with our naked eye. As early as the 1840s, scientists had made maps of the Moon more detailed than those for many regions of our own planet. Yet to discover the cause of the Moon's craters took three centuries, from the time of Galileo Galilei in the seventeenth century to the age of spacecraft. Only in the last decade have scientists solved the mystery of the Moon's origin, and that required the most advanced supercomputers. In language easily accessible to nonscientists, this book tells the fascinating story of how scientists solved the Moon's twin mysteries"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197694893 0197694896 9780197694879 019769487X 9780197694886 0197694888 |