Mission Jupiter : The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft
Jupiter is one of the brightest planets in our night sky, and by far the largest in the Solar System. What the Romans called “Father of the Sky” is huge — its diameter is more than ten times Earth’s, and its mass is well over twice the total of all the rest of the planets in the Solar System. Yet in spite of its staggering size, its position relatively close to us, and its prominent place in our myths and imagination, Jupiter has remained one of the most enigmatic of our planetary neighbors. Does this gas giant have a solid surface? What drives its Great Red Spot — a huge swirling storm hundreds of years old and tens of thousands of miles across? Was there ever a possibility of microbial life on its watery moon Europa? What are we to make of the active volcanoes on the moon Io? And what is the nature of Jupiter’s extraordinary magnetosphere?
This book tells the story of the Galileo space probe and the astonishing things it has told us about Jupiter — and the new questions it has raised in the course of its mission, which has lasted well over a decade. The tiny spacecraft, which has spent more than five years orbiting the planet, is arguably the most successful NASA space vehicle since Apollo 11. It has survived political indifference, legal challenges, software glitches, a balky high-gain antenna, and, with some damage, intense radiation bombardment — and it is still flying, still sending us extraordinary treasures of data from Jupiter and its moons.
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In July 1969 the ‘amiable strangers’ that made up the crew of the historic Apollo 11 flight successfully achieved the first manned lunar landing. Several months later, three close friends set off on an even more challenging mission. Free of the burden of making history, the Apollo 12 astronauts were determined to really enjoy their experience while taking care of business. This is the story of their mission, told largely in their own words. Their exploits and accomplishments showed how conservative the inaugural mission had been. With its two moonwalks, deployment of the first geophysical station on the Moon, and geological sampling, Apollo 12 did what many had hoped would be achieved by the first men to land on the Moon. The Apollo 12 mission also spectacularly demonstrated the precision landing capability required for success in future lunar surface explorations. In addition to official documents, published prior to and after the mission, APOLLO 12 – ON THE OCEAN OF STORMS draws on the flight transcript and post-mission debriefing to recreate the drama.
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The Copper in Bible versus Quran
The Copper in the Bible
(Verses Leviticus 26:19, Deuteronomy 28:23 and Numbers 21:9)
In the Bible, the Lord God says:
I will break the pride of your power
I will make your heaven as iron; the sky over your head will be copper.
I will make your earth as copper, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
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