Since the sixth "China Space Day" on April 24, China's aerospace industry has ushered in several breakthroughs and progress: First, on April 29, China's first space station Tianhe core module was successfully launched , entering the scheduled track on time. The Tianhe core module of China's manned space station has a total length of about 18.1 meters, a maximum diameter of about 4.2 meters, and a launch mass of 20-22 tons. This marks the full start of the orbit assembly and construction of the Chinese space station. On May 15, my country's first Mars exploration mission, the Tianwen-1 probe, successfully landed in the pre-selected landing area in the southern part of Mars' Utopia Planitia. This is the good news returned after 290 days since the Tianwen-1 probe was launched on July 23, 2020. On May 19, the National Space Administration released the first photos taken by the Zhurong rover, indicating that everything is normal on the Zhurong rover. This is less than a month before China’s Space Day on April 24, when the Mars rover was named “Zhurong”. This series of new developments in China’s aerospace industry has excited the Chinese people.
In this issue of the book list, we focus on space exploration and space dreams, especially Mars exploration, and feel the shocking power of technological breakthroughs that bring us space travel. At the end of last year, Baidao.com also launched the "Dare to go to the nine heavens to capture the moon! Moon exploration themed book list", which you can refer to.
"Welcome to the Universe and Travel with Astrophysicists" recently published by People's Posts and Telecommunications Press was compiled from the general astronomy course at Princeton University in the United States. The content covers planets, stars, galaxies, and black holes. , wormholes, time travel, multiverses, alien life, etc., from basic astronomical knowledge to cutting-edge developments, reinterpret the brief history of time. It integrates popularity, interest and rigor. "Wonderful Mars: New Secrets of the Red Planet" published by the agency is an introductory book for exploring Mars, the red planet, which can satisfy your curiosity about Mars. The earlier published "Pale Blue Dot: Exploring Humanity's Space Home" is a masterpiece describing the time and space coordinates and status of human beings in the universe. It is also one of the most influential popular science books in the 20th century.
The recently published "A Brief History of the Space Station: Outpost to the Next Planet" is a wonderful and moving brief history of the space station, which contains all the ideas and practices of the space station over the past two centuries. It will undoubtedly be a good help for understanding the subsequent construction and operation of China's space station.
"Dreams of Mars: Our Journey to the Red Planet" traces a series of Mars exploration missions that humans have implemented since the 1960s, and explores super-thrust rockets, space thrusters, and interplanetary life. Support systems, safe landing vehicles and return vehicles and other technologies analyze the new round of space race and look forward to the possible future life on Mars for human beings.
"Stargazing Guide: Easily Become a Stargazing Expert" by Zhejiang People's Publishing House is a new masterpiece by Professor Shi Hui, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Taiwan Science Education Society. It allows ordinary people to explore the connotation of "observation positioning and timing" and other astronomical knowledge through daily viewing of the most unique starry skies in the East and West. "Mars Immigration Guide" shows the arduous challenges that the "Mars One" immigration pioneers will face at the scientific, technological, economic, social, cultural, psychological and other levels given the current scientific and technological capabilities of mankind.
"Mars, Here I Come" takes mankind's understanding of Mars and the timing of its detection as the main line. Starting from China's "Yinghuo Shouxin", it tells the story of mankind's exploration of Mars and knowledge about Mars, and explores This article discusses the problems of life on Mars and its relationship with life on Earth. The author also talks about China's upcoming Mars exploration activities.
"Xuanji Yuheng" published by Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House, starting from the observatory, introduces the astronomical instruments of the past dynasties in China, including the standard watch, the sundial, the armillary sphere, the armillary image, and the clevis, and displays the instruments used by the ancients. Astronomical theories and techniques, and star catalogs and star maps resulting from the application of these techniques. It is a study and summary of important legacies in the history of traditional astronomy.
"Stars as Big as Peach: Visual Scale of Ancient Astronomical Observations" published by Shandong Science and Technology Press describes "guest stars as big as peach" and comets as "one foot and five feet long" in ancient Chinese astronomical observations. An in-depth analysis of the phenomenon was carried out, revealing the implicit visual celestial sphere model with a radius of about 13 meters. On this basis, similar observation records at home and abroad in ancient and modern times were unified, and further methods for correcting visual scale errors were proposed. It can help readers connect ancient and modern times in astronomical observations. "Searching for Cosmic Dust on the Rooftop" is a study on meteorites, reviewed by Dr. Zheng Yongchun. It can be enjoyed and read by meteorite enthusiasts.
Hainan Publishing House "How weird is the universe we live in?" ", is a classic popular science book by a famous author and a professional book that can also be understood by laymen. Among them is the life legend of Einstein and the theory of relativity falling in love and killing each other. "Hawking's Universe: The Story of Modern Physics and Astronomy" is a rare popular science book about the history and cutting-edge development of modern physics and astronomy.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press's "Science and Technology Achieves China" and "The Road to Asking the Sky-Records of China's Aerospace Development" show the development process, main achievements, key nodes and historical significance of my country's science and technology industry in the past 70 years. As well as the great development, great leaps and great brilliance of China's aerospace science and technology.
"Success as Belief - Aerospace Engineering Quality Management" published by Capital University of Economics and Business Press reveals the successful concept and underlying reasons of China Aerospace as "China's first world famous brand".
"The Rise and Fall of Pluto" published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House is an unparalleled biography of Pluto so far. It is not only a simple scientific knowledge book, but also a scientific story with a humanistic color that can arouse readers' emotions.
"Navigation, Guidance and Control of the Mars Probe's Entry, Descent and Landing Process" published by Science Press is a "terrifying" seven minutes, showing the complexity and startling steps of Mars exploration technology. "Building Dreams in Tiangong: From Ten Thousand Households Flying to the Sky to the Chinese Space Station" records the Chinese people's space exploration process since Wanhu flying to the sky, describes many significant scientific experiments conducted on the Chinese Space Laboratory Tiangong-2, and provides readers with a Three-dimensional displays the infinite charm of space science experiments.
The imagination of Mars is also reflected in science fiction novels and poems such as "Life on Mars". I won’t introduce them one by one here.
The book lists published here are all produced based on Baidao Book Selection Backend and Baidao Good Books big data. Bookstores, libraries and reading promotion agencies are interested in experiencing and trying out the platform and data, as well as publishing institutions. If you need to recommend related books to the book list, please email: bd@bookdao.com.