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Planetfall: New Solar System Visions: New Solar System Visions
Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson’s masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the bould...more
Hardcover, 204 pages
Published
October 1st 2012
by Harry N. Abrams
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However you can arrange it, put this book in front of your brain. Splendid imagery, humbling technology. The only troubling view is the blue smoke rising over South America as we allow our rainforests to be burned out of existence; and that much of this photography will end because Congress is too preoccupied with dumb ways to spend our money. We stopped funding exploration, continued support of those probes out there already, and new and innovative space exploration. Hopefully there is true int...more
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Michael Benson is a journalist and maker of documentary films, including the award-winning Predictions of Fire (1995). His work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Smithsonian, among other publications, and he has been a television (CNN) and radio...more
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Michael Benson is a journalist and maker of documentary films, including the award-winning Predictions of Fire (1995). His work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Smithsonian, among other publications, and he has been a television (CNN) and radio...more
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