Jim Bell (1) (1965–)
Auteur van The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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Jim Bell, is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona, State University, an adjunct professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, and the president of the Planetary Society. He and his teammates have received more than a dozen NASA Group Achievement toon meer Awards for the work on space missions, and he was the recipient of the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science from the American Astronomical Society. toon minder
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A fine read. Wsa hoping for more about the spacecraft and how it worked. Some interesting nuggets about the planets and the flyby on the Grand Tour. Much of this info had already been shared, so it was a recap.
The Space Book is massive in scope, covering the beginning of time to the supposed end of the universe. With beautiful illustrations and instructive diagrams, the 250 Milestones in Astronomy and Cosmology is wonderfully informative and interesting.
Although I suppose if you have read one of the books in this series, you will find more of the same here, only on a different subject. The format is pretty much the same, and a lot of bias enters into the mix since they have a limit of what can be covered. For instance, separate entries are given for each planetary discovery and for discoveries of other moons. This book also contains an entry on Einstein's "Miracle Year" of 1905. At first, I didn't understand why that was included, but I suppose the photoelectric effect and other discoveries would allow scientists to use other methods of detection.… (meer)
Although I suppose if you have read one of the books in this series, you will find more of the same here, only on a different subject. The format is pretty much the same, and a lot of bias enters into the mix since they have a limit of what can be covered. For instance, separate entries are given for each planetary discovery and for discoveries of other moons. This book also contains an entry on Einstein's "Miracle Year" of 1905. At first, I didn't understand why that was included, but I suppose the photoelectric effect and other discoveries would allow scientists to use other methods of detection.… (meer)
Epic voyage, epic accomplishments.
Bell does a good job presenting the decades long epic accomplishments of the Voyager mission - a fascinating exploration of our entry into the interstellar community!
Bell does a good job presenting the decades long epic accomplishments of the Voyager mission - a fascinating exploration of our entry into the interstellar community!
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In a nutshell, it's a story of the Voyager missions, going into background years (centuries) before they were even launched up through each of the fly-bys, and into a more than decent sprinkling of the human side of the story.
There are some wonderful scientific tidbits in there that I half knew but really liked getting numbers for.
I work with computer hardware and software day in and out, so seeing just how underpowered Voyager was compared to modern devices? Awesome.
Learning about how they reprogrammed it and added compression remotely (about as remotely as has ever been done...) to better change in software what hardware couldn't change? Awesome.
Realizing that these are human devices mind numbingly far away from us... and yet we can still talk to them and get data back? Awesome.
The human half of the story... I'm still not sure what to think about it. It ends up being rather more personal, with the author's tangential involvement taking up a lot of the story. And... I didn't always care about it. Get me back to the technology and SCIENCE! But really, without the human part of it, we never would have had this mission. We never would have had this book. So for that at least, it makes it work.
All together, it's a wonderful story and a well written book. Well worth the read.… (meer)