RECONNAISSANCE OF THE NEARER PLANETS. A SURVEY OF PLANETARY PROBLEMS IN THE SPACE AGE

Abstract

This discussion is divided into two parts: the first part is a summary of the best present information of the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars, gained almost entirely from ground-based observatories. The second part outlines how these methods could be extended to observations from balloon observatories, and especially from space probes and orbiters in the immediate vicinity of the planets. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0276833

Entities

People

  • G. De Vaucouleurs

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ground Based
  • Instrumentation
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Probes
  • Reconnaissance
  • Space Probes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space