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Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions which may have opened new home windows on distant worlds. Spanning four years of dramatic innovations in astronomy and planetary science, this book instructs the storyplot of eleven iconic exploratory missions and exactly how they have got fundamentally changed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it.The trip starts with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which color a startling picture of your world at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip face with a comet is brought vividly alive, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated reserve also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp concentration by NASA's great observatories--Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble--and how the WMAP objective has provided exceptional glimpses of the dawn of creation.Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what this means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.
