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Alan Rodgers

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Pandora
Year 1995
Publisher Millennium
ISBN 1857982487
 

 

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Imagine the wonder of man's first contact with extraterrestrials.

Imagine the strangeness of an alien child, able to warp local space/time.

Now imagine that alien child, abused and persecuted, breaking out of a military compound - and the impact she will have on humanity.

Pandora - our brave new world, through alien eyes - an extraordinary journey of science fiction wonder ...

 

 

Review




'An original voice .. who consistently rewards his readers'
Raymond E Feist

'Alan Rodgers writes with style, wit ... Don't miss him!'
F Paul Wilson

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SIM PlanetQuest mission

 

 

Credit: NASA

SIM PlanetQuest Mission
SIM PlanetQuest, scheduled for launch within the next decade, will be the most powerful planet-hunting space telescope ever devised. Using two separated mirrors and combining their light with a technique known as interferometry, SIM PlanetQuest will able to detect planets as small as Earth. These are the kind of planets that scientists believe have the most potential to support life.

Although more than 160 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system since 1995, the "holy grail" - Earthlike planets located in the habitable zone - remains beyond the reach of current telescopes.

SIM PlanetQuest will perform the first census of nearby Earth-like planets by observing the "wobble" in each parent star's apparent motion as the planet orbits, to an accuracy of one millionth of an arcsecond.

The SIM PlanetQuest study of neighboring planetary systems will set the stage for future space telescopes, like Terrestrial Planet Finder, that will be able to directly image these distant worlds, and probe their atmospheres for the signatures of life.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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