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The View from Space: NASA's Evolving Struggle to Understand Our Home Planet
Richard Leshner
The View from Space: NASA's Evolving Struggle to Understand Our Home Planet
Richard Leshner
In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planet's environment from space. MTPE's main goal was to better understand fundamental processes such as climate change. This book tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented convergence of science, technology, and policy.
256 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 25, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780700628315 |
Publishers | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 157 × 231 × 22 mm · 521 g |
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