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Visions Of The Interplanetary Probes
Abrams Books
June 2003
On Sale: May 27, 2003
320 pages
ISBN: 0810945312
EAN: 9780810945319
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration has been sending satellites to explore the
planets, moons, and sun. Benson, a "deskbound cosmic
pilgrim" ("Atlantic Monthly, ") has pulled together the most
spectacular of them into one volume. Presenting photographs from the history of robotic space
exploration, this oversized book provides an awe-inspiring
visual narrative of the solar system's planets, moons, and
asteroids. From the vantage point of unmanned explorers, the
book shows Venus' veil of clouds lifted by Magellan's
high-resolution radar; Mars as viewed by the Viking orbiters
of the 1970s; and unambiguous signs of life on Earth
revealed by Galileo's flybys en route to Jupiter. The
striking high-resolution images form a body of art created
in equal parts by scientists, by the probes themselves, and
by the curator Michael Benson. Benson (a writer, filmmaker,
and photographer) includes 295 color and black-and-white
photographs, and essays explaining the stories behind the
photos, and how and why the probes were built. The book includes a forward by novelist Arthur C. Clarke.
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