Jim Bell (1) (1965–)
Autore di The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
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Jim Bell, is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona, State University, an adjunct professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, and the president of the Planetary Society. He and his teammates have received more than a dozen NASA Group Achievement mostra altro Awards for the work on space missions, and he was the recipient of the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science from the American Astronomical Society. mostra meno
Opere di Jim Bell
The Earth Book: From the Beginning to the End of Our Planet, 250 Milestones in the History of Earth Science (Sterling… (2019) 40 copie
The Space Book Revised and Updated: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space &… (2018) 31 copie
Opere correlate
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
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[b:The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission|22571516|The Interstellar Age Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission|Jim Bell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404484684l/22571516._SX50_.jpg|42038013] is a great way to change that. (That's quite the title).
In a nutshell, it's a story of the Voyager missions, going into background years (centuries) before they were even launched up through each of the fly-bys, and into a more than decent sprinkling of the human side of the story.
There are some wonderful scientific tidbits in there that I half knew but really liked getting numbers for.
I work with computer hardware and software day in and out, so seeing just how underpowered Voyager was compared to modern devices? Awesome.
Learning about how they reprogrammed it and added compression remotely (about as remotely as has ever been done...) to better change in software what hardware couldn't change? Awesome.
Realizing that these are human devices mind numbingly far away from us... and yet we can still talk to them and get data back? Awesome.
The human half of the story... I'm still not sure what to think about it. It ends up being rather more personal, with the author's tangential involvement taking up a lot of the story. And... I didn't always care about it. Get me back to the technology and SCIENCE! But really, without the human part of it, we never would have had this mission. We never would have had this book. So for that at least, it makes it work.
All together, it's a wonderful story and a well written book. Well worth the read.… (altro)