Planetfall
Subtitle: new solar system visions
By: Michael Benson
Publisher: Abrams; Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781419704222
Subjects: Space probes; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Astronomical photography; Pictorial works; PHOTOGRAPHY / General
Description: "Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson's masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the boulder-strewn red deserts of Mars; studied Saturn's immaculate rings; and shown us our own ravishing Earth, a blue-white orb with a disturbingly thin atmosphere, as it plunges deeper into ecological crisis. These new images are the subject of Benson's Planetfall, a truly revelatory book that uses its large page size to reproduce the greatest achievements in contemporary planetary photography as never before"--