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NASA Takes Photography into Space considers the work of NASA photographers as they began exploring space. Using many stunning, full-page photos, it examines the photography's contributions to NASA's overall mission, including how space exploration has pushed photography technology forward.
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English
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This title introduces young photographers to making images of the stars and planets. Through clear text and stunning photography, readers will learn the techniques needed to capture nighttime scenes. Topics covered include shooting star fields, the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, and the milky way. Choosing the proper equipment is also discussed, from DSLRs to telescopes. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when new technologies developed for use in space allow an anthropologist a new perspective on earth's ancient histories and new ways of coping with those"--
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
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"Orbit takes the reader into space for astronaut's views of home: Cape Cod arching into the Atlantic, Mount Everest casting its shadow over lesser peaks, the sands of the Sahara arrayed in endless patterns. Like any travelers, these voyagers in space have aimed their cameras at sights that startled their eyes. They have flown through the aurora and captured its rippling, mystic colors. They have looked down upon storms and volcanoes. And they have...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
vi, 281 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Lights of Mankind" is the story of how people have populated the Earth, as told through inspiring, panoramic photographs of the planet at night. It showcases unexpected and breathtaking photos made possible by the latest light-sensitive cameras and the newly installed Cupola on the International Space Station.
12) Map:satellite
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
360 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This book, combining satellite imagery with detailed cartography, shows changes to the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere of Earth and monitors the state of the environment at local and global scales.
13) Earth from space
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
Author
Publisher
Greenfinch
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the universe as you've never seen it before. Discover how the awe-inspiring images from Webb are rapidly changing our understanding of our solar system and beyond."--Amazon.
15) Earth from space
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (digital ; 4 3/4 in).
Language
English
Description
Includes 151 historic NASA pictures, including photographs of the Apollo flights, rockets, astronauts, planets, moons, stars, galaxies, nebulas, and deep space as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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