Introduction: Planetary geosciences, the Dutch contribution to the exploration of our solar system
Planetary geoscience was effectively born when Christiaan Huygens took his first look at planet Mars on Friday 28 November 1659. As one of the leading scientists of his time, Huygens was known for constructing his own telescopes to observe stars, planets and nebulae whenever the clear and spacious skies above the Netherlands allowed. Huygens observed the planet Mars during the heydays of its 1659 opposition. On the night of 28 November he succeeded in sketching the first albedo feature on a different planet in our solar system. The roughly triangular dark-coloured patch was originally christen... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw ; volume 95, issue 2, page 109-112 ; ISSN 0016-7746 1573-9708 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | Geology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26685267 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/njg.2016.8 |