Neptune’s Laboratory

Neptune’s Laboratory

Author: Antony Adler

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0674972015

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An eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship with the ocean lies as much in what we imagine as in what we discover. We have long been fascinated with the oceans, seeking “to pierce the profundity” of their depths. In studying the history of marine science, we also learn about ourselves. Neptune’s Laboratory explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet—conjuring ideal-world fantasies alongside fears of our species’ weakness and ultimate demise. Oceans gained new prominence in the public imagination in the early nineteenth century as scientists plumbed the depths and marine fisheries were industrialized. Concerns that fish stocks could be exhausted soon emerged. In Europe these fears gave rise to internationalist aspirations, as scientists sought to conduct research on an oceanwide scale and nations worked together to protect their fisheries. The internationalist program for marine research waned during World War I, only to be revived in the interwar period and again in the 1960s. During the Cold War, oceans were variously recast as battlefields, post-apocalyptic living spaces, and utopian frontiers. The ocean today has become a site of continuous observation and experiment, as probes ride the ocean currents and autonomous and remotely operated vehicles peer into the abyss. Embracing our fears, fantasies, and scientific investigations, Antony Adler tells the story of our relationship with the seas.


Discovering Pluto

Discovering Pluto

Author: Dale P. Cruikshank

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0816534314

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The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher.


Neptune's Cauldron

Neptune's Cauldron

Author: Michael G. Coney

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0575129425

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Pursued by the interplanetary police for a crime he did not commit, space traveller Tyg is forced down on the planet Storm, where he finds a revolution brewing among the Tadda against King Caiman, the planet's tyrannical ruler. He must prove his innocence of the crime with which he is charged, as he fights for survival beneath the Storm's seething oceans, where the very existence of the Tadda is threatened by the deadly undersea volcano known as NEPTUNE'S CAULDRON.


Neptune

Neptune

Author: Richard Hantula

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2002-08-02

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836832396

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Introduces the fourth largest known planet in the solar system.


The Solar System Beyond Neptune

The Solar System Beyond Neptune

Author: M. Antonietta Barucci

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780816527557

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A new frontier in our solar system opened with the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and the extensive population of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune. Today the study of all of these bodies, collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects, reveals them to be frozen time capsules from the earliest epochs of solar system formation. This new volume in the Space Science Series, with one hundred contributing authors, offers the most detailed and up-to-date picture of our solar systemÕs farthest frontier. Our understanding of trans-Neptunian objects is rapidly evolving and currently constitutes one of the most active research fields in planetary sciences. The Solar System Beyond Neptune brings the reader to the forefront of our current understanding and points the way to further advancement in the field, making it an indispensable resource for researchers and students in planetary science.


Neptune and Triton

Neptune and Triton

Author: Dale P. Cruikshank

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1995-11

Total Pages: 1292

ISBN-13: 9780816515257

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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.


Agent Maya Neptune's Deadliest Ring and the Moons of Ice and Fire

Agent Maya Neptune's Deadliest Ring and the Moons of Ice and Fire

Author: Erik Kreffel

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0983331723

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Straight out of the comics pages of Agent Maya Season One comes Agent Maya Neptune's Deadliest Ring and the Moons of Ice and Fire! Two stories in one volume! Humanity has spread across the vast Solar System, exploring, colonizing, mining. When crime syndicates, terrorist fronts and egregious corporations bent on chaos and conquest cause trouble, Agent Maya--InterPlanetary Tax Police--enters to enforce the law!