Download or read book NEBULAR Collection 1 The Triton Base written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEBULAR is a science fiction series that transports you to the year 2113. It is an era in which nation states are a thing of the past. United in the Solar Union, Humanity faces its last great challenge: the exploration of the outer Solar System. The Union Fleet already maintains scientific outposts on the distant moons of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Private companies are mining for raw materials and large spaceships are travelling between the inner planets. The causes of earlier civilisational setbacks, such as wars, diseases and poverty, have been overcome. Around ten billion Union citizens populate the Earth, with another 250 million humans settling in the growing colonies on the Luna and Mars. The furthest outpost from Earth is located on Neptune's moon Triton. It is an icy cold world where mainly scientists and private companies are based. The crew's main task is to explore the Kuiper Belt, also known as the Outer Ring, with its numerous dwarf planets. Astrophysicists are using the remoteness of the celestial body to advance the search for extraterrestrial life. The scientists of the new SETI project use their receiving antennas to examine the neighbouring stars for potential radio signals from alien civilisations. A total of around two thousand humans are working on the Triton Base. Space travellers from Earth have seen the ice deserts on Jupiter's moon Europa, the dust storms of Mars and the primeval hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan with their own eyes, but so far they have not found any extraterrestrial life. One of Humanity's most important goals remains to make peaceful contact with alien civilisations in space. Unconsciously, most scientists hope that these life forms are similar to us and that communication is possible. So far, the search has been unsuccessful, but this does not rule out the possibility that they exist in the infinite expanses of space and are already watching us.

Download or read book NEBULAR 1 The Triton Base written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEBULAR is a science fiction series that takes you to the year 2113. It is an era in which nation states are a thing of the past. United in the Solar Union, humanity faces its last great challenge: the exploration of the outer Solar System. The Union Fleet already maintains scientific outposts on the distant moons of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Private companies are prospecting for raw materials and spaceships shuttle between the planets. The causes of earlier civilisational setbacks, such as wars, disease and poverty, have been overcome. Around ten billion citizens of the Solar Union populate the Earth, and another 250 million people settle in the growing colonies on the Earth’s moon and Mars. The furthest outpost from Earth is on Neptune’s moon Triton. It is a frigid world populated mainly by scientists and private companies. The crew’s main task is to explore the Kuiper Belt with its dwarf planets, also called the Outer Ring. Astrophysicists use the remoteness of the celestial body to advance the search for extraterrestrial life. The scientists of the new SETI project use their receiving antennas to examine neighbouring stars for potential radio signals from alien civilisations. A total of around two thousand men and women are on duty at the Triton Base. The icy deserts on Jupiter’s moon Europa, the dust storms of Mars and the primordial hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s moon Titan have been seen by space travellers from Earth with their own eyes, but so far they have not found extraterrestrial life. One of humanity’s most important goals remains to make peaceful contact with alien civilisations in space. Unconsciously, most scientists hope that these life forms are similar to us and that communication is possible. So far, the search has been unsuccessful, but this does not rule out the possibility that they exist in the vastness of space and are already observing us.

Download or read book NEBULAR 2 Save Triton written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Solar Union scout ship lands on the Kuiper object Quaoar. The crew, led by squadron leader Bill Davis, finds alien artefacts on the dwarf planet. The team enters an underground cavern and discovers a terrifying, frozen alien creature during their exploration. After the alien’s rigidity has given way, the spacemen have no choice but to flee. Through the extraterrestrial’s extreme bioelectric radiation, the humans receive fragments of its thoughts. The creature transmits an impulse that takes root in the minds of the landing team: Globuster! The bestial-looking creature behaves in an extremely hostile manner. Peaceful contact seems impossible. One crew member is killed in the collision, the others manage to escape from the Globuster cave. The bizarre intelligence creature begins to race, destroys the scout ship of the exploration team and starts a hunt for the survivors. It has the ability to detect other creatures by their mental aura. While trying to escape, Bill Davis and Caroline Tubian realise that they are inferior to the extraterrestrial in every way. Hand weapons they carry with them prove ineffective. The Globuster envelops itself in a protective field against which there seems to be no remedy. At the last second, a commando from the Triton Base appears and is able to evacuate the two astronauts. The alien retreats in the face of the supposed superiority and escapes in a lenticular spaceship. Before doing so, it triggers a fateful process and changes the orbital path of the dwarf planet. It now lies exactly on a collision course with Triton ...

Download or read book NEBULAR 5 Army of Nanobots written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soulwanderer and his Spike pose the greatest threat in the history of the Solar Union. The extraterrestrial being, which resides in the eternal ice of Antarctica, is pursuing a sinister plan. It is determined to rob united humanity of all its modern achievements, to dominate and mentally subjugate every individual. The reasons for the extraterrestrial's actions are unknown. At this point, no one knows that the present is linked to the distant past. History seems to be repeating itself. Once before, a battle was fought on Earth against the Soulwanderer, but there were no humans who resolutely opposed him. While about a million years ago the Progonauts were fighting for survival, this time human civilisation is on the brink of extinction. In the greatest need and as a last means of defence, the leaders of the Solar Union use a special weapon. It is the Army of Nanobots.

Download or read book NEBULAR 7 The Techno Clerics written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2113. Scorge has arrived in the system of Epsilon Indi with the YAX-KUK-MO. Together with Toiber Arkroid, Vasina and Lai Pi, The Shwakan is following vague clues in search of the homeworld of an ancient robot civilisation. The trader is bound by a promise he made to 40028, a robot of this people that he recovered from an asteroid on a trading trip. Scorge follows the sparse clues and scans the supposed target system. Despite an extensive search, the centre world remains untraceable. The home of 40028 seems to have disappeared, just like the builders of the spherical robots, who anchored a high cosmic moral standard in the basic programming of their artificial creatures. Where have the brothers of the spherical robot gone? Scorge doesn’t give up and persists. He investigates every moon of Epsilon Indi, hoping to soon discover a trace of the Techno-Clerics.

Download or read book OSMINDA written by Thomas Rabenstein and published by SciFi-World Medien Verlag. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Hubble is an astronomer and director of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. After the sudden death of his wife Margret, he cares for their 16-year-old daughter Sally and tries to cope with the challenges of a single working father. On the way to his workplace, the two are caught in a violent storm. A landslide temporarily cuts off their way back to Pasadena and the mountain road is blocked. On the way, Sally and he find an unconscious woman on the side of the road. They administer first aid and take the stranger to the observatory. What they do not suspect at the time: The encounter sets in motion a chain of terrifying events that seriously changes the scientist's entire world view ...

Download or read book Neptune and Triton written by Dale P. Cruikshank and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reconnaissance of all the major planets of the Solar System culminated in the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989. Neptune itself was revealed as a planet with gigantic active storms in its atmosphere, and off-center magnetic field, and a system of tenuous, lumpy rings. Whereas only two satellites were known prior to the encounter, Voyager discovered six more. Triton, the largest satellite, was revealed as a frozen, icy world with clouds and layers of haze, and with vertical plumes of particles reaching five miles into the thin atmosphere. This latest Space Science Series volume presents the current level of understanding of Neptune, its riings, and its satellites, derived from the data received from the Voyager. The book's chapters are written by the world's leading authorities on various aspects of the Neptune system and are based on papers presented at an international conference held in January 1992. Covering details of Neptune's interior, atmosphere, rings, magnetic fields, and near-space environment--as well as the small satellites and the remarkable moon Triton--this volume is a unique resource for planetary scientists and astronomers requiring a comprehensive analysis of Neptune viewed in the context of our knowledge of the other giant planets. Until another spacecraft is sent to Neptune, Neptune and Triton will stand as the basic reference on the planet.

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Download or read book Planetary Science written by George H. A. Cole and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many planetary systems other than our own, but it is only through a detailed understanding of the relatively accessible bodies in our solar system that a thorough appreciation of planetary science can be gained. This is particularly pertinent with the recent discovery of extra-solar planets and the desire to understand their formation and the prospect of life on other worlds. Planetary Science: The Science of Planets Around Stars focuses on the structure of planets and the stars they orbit and the interactions between them. The book is written in two parts, making it suitable for students at different levels and approaching planetary science from differing backgrounds. Twelve independent descriptive chapters reveal our solar system and the diverse bodies it contains, including satellites, planetary rings, asteroids, comets, meteorites, and interstellar dust. These chapters are accompanied by 42 detailed topics that discuss specialized subjects in a quantitative manner and will be essential reading for those in higher level courses. Coverage includes mineralogy, stellar formation and evolution, solar system dynamics, atmospheric physics, planetary interiors, thermodynamics, planetary astrophysics, and exobiology. Problems and answers are also included. Planetary Science: The Science of Planets Around Stars presents a complete overview of planetary science for students of physics, astronomy, astrophysics, earth sciences, and geophysics. Assuming no prior knowledge of astrophysics or geophysics, this book is suitable for students studying planetary science for the first time.

Download or read book Planetary Sciences written by Imke de Pater and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this award-winning textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. This updated second edition has been revised and improved while maintaining its existing structure and organization. Many data tables and plots have been updated to account for the latest measurements. A new Appendix focuses on recent discoveries since the second edition was first published. These include results from Cassini, Kepler, MESSENGER, MRO, LRO, Dawn at Vesta, Curiosity, and others, as well as many ground-based observatories. With over 300 exercises to help students apply the concepts covered, this textbook is ideal for graduate courses in astronomy, planetary science and earth science, and well suited as a reference for researchers. Color versions of many figures, movie clips supplementing the text, and other resources are available at www.cambridge.org/depater.

Download or read book Pluto and Charon written by S. Alan Stern and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five decades after its discovery in 1930, the planet Pluto remained an enigma. However, several events during the last two decades have helped to lift the veil of mystery surrounding the ninth planet. The discovery of its satellite, Charon, in 1978 permitted occultation observations that allowed scientists to determine the size of both bodies. Astronomers also detected the presence of an atmosphere, and the Hubble Space Telescope provided views in unprecedented detail. In addition to these two fortuitous events, advances in telescopic instrumentation and computational methods led to exciting observational and theoretical discoveries. This new Space Sciences Series volume focuses on the scientific issues associated with Pluto and Charon. Fifty collaborating authors here review the latest research on the Pluto-Charon binary, from bulk properties, surfaces and interiors to atmospheric structure, composition, and dynamics. They also provide historical perspectives on Pluto-Charon research and discuss the population of the trans-Neptunian region and the origin of the Pluto-Charon binary. Also included are prefatory remarks by Pluto's and Charon's discoverers, Clyde Tombaugh and James Christy. This volume offers the most comprehensive available compendium of research work for understanding these far off members of our solar system, just at a time following dramatic developments in our knowledge but before that knowledge can be advanced by spacecraft missions.

Download or read book Planetary Systems Formation Evolution and Detection written by Bernard F. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Are there other planetary systems like ours? Other planets like ours? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe?' So asks Dr. Lew Allen Jr. in the Foreword. In December of 1992, theorists, observers, and instrument builders gathered at the California Institute of Technology to discuss the search for answers to these questions. The International Conference, entitled `Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection' and supported through NASA's newly formed TOPS (Toward Other Planetary Systems) program, was the first of a series of conferences uniting researchers across disciplines and political boundaries to share thoughts and information on planetary systems. The conference was sponsored by NASA, hosted by JPL at Caltech, and endorsed by the 1992 International Space Year Association. These proceedings include discussions of topics ranging from stellar, disk, and planetary formation to new ways of searching for other stellar systems containing planets. The authors represent a wide range of nationalities, disciplines, and points of view. The second international conference took place in December of 1993.

Download or read book A Geological Basis for the Exploration of the Planets written by Ronald Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Formation Of The Solar System The Theories Old And New 2nd Edition written by Michael Mark Woolfson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the field. Unlike other authors, Michael Woolfson focuses on the formation of the solar system, engaging the reader in an intelligent yet accessible discussion of the development of ideas about how the Solar System formed from ancient times to the present.Within the last five decades new observations and new theoretical advances have transformed the way scientists think about the problem of finding a plausible theory. Spacecraft and landers have explored the planets of the Solar System, observations have been made of Solar-System bodies outside the region of the planets and planets have been detected and observed around many solar-type stars. This new edition brings in the most recent discoveries, including the establishment of dwarf planets and challenges to the ‘standard model’ of planet formation — the Solar Nebula Theory.While presenting the most up-to-date material and the underlying science of the theories described, the book avoids technical jargon and terminology. It thus remains a digestible read for the non-expert interested reader, whilst being detailed and comprehensive enough to be used as an undergraduate physics and astronomy textbook, where the formation of the solar system is a key part of the course.Michael Woolfson is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of York and is an award-winning crystallographer and astronomer.

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Solar System written by Paul Weissman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1998-09-18 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Solar System provides a series of comprehensive and authoritative articles written by more than 50 eminent planetary and space scientists. Each chapter is self-contained yet linked by cross-references to other related chapters. This beautifully designed book is a must for the library of professional astronomers and amateur star-gazers alike, in fact for anyone who wishes to understand the nature of our solar system. Key Features* Cross-referenced throughout for easy comprehension* Superbly illustrated with over 700 photos, drawings, and diagrams, including 36 color plates* Provides 40 thematically organized chapters by more than 50 eminent contributors* Convenient glossaries of technical terms introduce each chapter* Academic Press maintains a web site for the Encyclopedia at www.academicpress.com/solar; Author-recommended web resources for additional information, images, and research developments related to each chapter of this volume, are available here

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