Inner Solar System Prospective Energy and Material Resources
This book investigates Venus and Mercury prospective energy and material resources. It is a collection of topics related to exploration and utilization of these bodies. It presents past and future technologies and solutions to old problems that could beco
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Inner Solar System Prospective Energy and Material Resources
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Inner Solar System
Viorel Badescu ⋅ Kris Zacny Editors
Inner Solar System Prospective Energy and Material Resources
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Editors Viorel Badescu Candida Oancea Institute Polytechnic University of Bucharest Bucharest Romania
ISBN 978-3-319-19568-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8
Kris Zacny Honeybee Robotics Pasadena, CA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-19569-8
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This book is dedicated to the past, present, and future explorers of Venus and Mercury.
Foreword
Throughout history, voyages of discovery and exploration have been followed by periods of relative quiet, as people absorb the new findings, but were often “motionless,” fearing to follow in the footsteps of these courageous individuals, or simply not knowing what to do. Then came tentative expeditions of assessment of the new lands, reporting back on the nature and beauty of the landscape and its potential. And then, attempts at settlement and living off the land, and finally, exploration for natural resources to support an ever-increasing population and complex infrastructure. The well-known exploration of the American West comes to mind. Early explorers were followed by Lewis and Clark, sent by insightful leaders to map and assess the potential of the land. Then followed wagon trains, cowboys and ranchers, sodbusters and homesteaders, railroads to connect the country, and finally even greater infrastructure to support an ever-increasing and organized society and the cities they came to live in. What must it have been like to be Captain James Cook, setting sail on his first voyage of exploration in 1768, a whole new and unknow
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