Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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... temperature of the planet still more . As the temperature rises , the vapor pressure of water in the Martian atmosphere would also rise , and since water vapor is also a very strong greenhouse gas , this would raise the temperature of ...
... temperature of the Red Planet would be increased by 10 ° C within a few decades . This temperature rise would cause vast amounts of carbon dioxide to outgas from the regolith , which would warm the planet further , since CO2 is a ...
... temperature . For proton - proton fusion in a star the size and temperature of our Sun , reaction rates scale as the fourth power of temperature , whereas for cooler stars the temperature dependence is stronger . If the CNO cycle is ...