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2) The planets
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A photographic chronicle of space exploration, discussing what has been learned about the moon, planets, stars, and other aspects of the solar system through manned and unmanned space flight.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and...
8) Life search
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the quest to discover other life in our universe, how life began, and the building blocks of life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating examination of the search for life in our solar system and beyond!
In this intriguing recording, Professor Emeritus Timothy Ferris- one of the world's most respected science writers- explores man's search for life elsewhere in the universe. Ferris combines new discoveries about the origins of life as we know it on Earth with recent revelations about the sun's planets and their moons. Ferris explains why many...
Author
Series
Homecoming volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful computer, the Oversoul, has the task of governing human affairs on the planet Harmony and needs to be repaired. Moozh, a great warrior, flouts the Oversoul. Can anyone stop him or will the planet fall?
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system. Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the author's plan for reaching, exploring and settling on Mars, explaining step-by-step how existing technology can be used to send humans to Mars within ten years, and discussing how the planet's natural resources could be used to produce fuel and oxygen for sustaining life.
18) Meru
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
20) The Grays
Author
Language
English
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Description
We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Meet the Three Thieves, a group of Grays assigned to duty in a small Kentucky town. They have been preparing a child for generations. Innocent Conner Callaghan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be, and what he must do to save humanity. Colonel Michael Morax strives to keep the secret of the Grays from the...
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