The Earth: Space Travels
Gottwald, Manfred
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-01-02
- 售價: $1,840
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,748
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 203
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3662696320
- ISBN-13: 9783662696323
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商品描述
About 80 years ago, it was possible for the first time to confirm what modern science had suggested for centuries: Earth shows its sphericity based on a curved horizon. The following age of space flights opened other opportunities. First, our home planet could be observed from low Earth orbits, and then, a while later, even from the distance of the Moon. Interplanetary space flights even shifted our perspective out into the universe. Images sent back from many spacecraft showed how Earth and its Moon are part of the solar system.
This book is a journey away from Earth, but always looking back at it. The journey starts with balloon flights reaching the stratosphere, followed by the tedious attempts to reach space. When space flight in low Earth orbits had been achieved, frequent unmanned and manned missions covered that region. Further milestones reached geostationary orbit and the Moon. Interplanetary missions allowed us to become acquainted with large parts of the solar system. They showed us how unique our home planet Earth is. A photo from a distance of 6 billion kilometers, the famous "pale blue dot," always reminds us of this fact.
The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. The author has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
約八十年前，現代科學首次能夠確認長久以來的觀點：地球的曲率顯示了其球形特徵。隨著太空飛行時代的來臨，開啟了其他的機會。首先，我們的家園星球可以從低地球軌道觀察，然後不久之後，甚至可以從月球的距離觀察。行星間的太空飛行更是將我們的視野拓展至宇宙。許多太空船傳回的影像顯示了地球及其月球是太陽系的一部分。
這本書是一段遠離地球的旅程，但始終回望著它。旅程從氣球飛行進入平流層開始，接著是艱難的嘗試以進入太空。當低地球軌道的太空飛行實現後，頻繁的無人和載人任務覆蓋了該區域。隨後的里程碑達到了靜止軌道和月球。行星間的任務讓我們熟悉了太陽系的廣大部分，並顯示了我們的家園地球是多麼獨特。一張距離六十億公里的照片，著名的「蒼白藍點」，時時提醒著我們這一事實。
這段翻譯是借助人工智慧完成的。作者隨後對文本進行了進一步的修訂，以期在風格上精練作品。
作者簡介
Manfred Gottwald studied astronomy and physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich. In 1991, he moved to the German Aerospace Center (DLR). There, the solar system and particularly our home planet Earth became his research fields. Since 2012, when the first digital elevation model data from the TanDEM-X mission, a twin radar X-band configuration operated and controlled by DLR, became available, he has been engaged in the study of terrestrial impact structures. The digital elevation model allowed, for the first time, the publication of a topographic atlas of all impacts still existing on Earth. In September 2018, he retired from DLR but continues to work in the field of terrestrial impact structures. His numerous publications, in the form of lectures, articles, and books, cater to both the scientific community and the interested public, covering the entire universe - from its distant edge to the surface of our home planet.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Manfred Gottwald 在慕尼黑的路德維希-馬克西米利安大學學習天文學和物理學。他在慕尼黑工業大學獲得博士學位。1991年，他轉到德國航空航天中心（DLR）。在那裡，太陽系，特別是我們的家園地球，成為他的研究領域。自2012年以來，當來自 TanDEM-X 任務的第一個數位高程模型數據可用時，這是一個由 DLR 操作和控制的雙雷達 X 波段配置，他便開始從事地球撞擊結構的研究。這個數位高程模型首次使得所有仍然存在於地球上的撞擊事件的地形圖集得以出版。2018年9月，他從 DLR 退休，但仍繼續在地球撞擊結構的領域工作。他的眾多出版物，包括講座、文章和書籍，既面向科學界，也面向感興趣的公眾，涵蓋整個宇宙——從其遙遠的邊緣到我們的家園地球的表面。
