Michael  Benson
Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Bensonâ€™s masterful book ,Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes,, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the boulder-strewn red deserts of Mars; studied Saturnâ€™s immaculate rings; and shown us our own ravishing Earth, a blue-white orb with a disturbingly thin atmosphere, as it plunges deeper into ecological crisis. These new images are the subject of Bensonâ€™s ,Planetfall,, a truly revelatory book that uses its large page size to reproduce the greatest achievements in contemporary planetary photography as never before.,Praise for ,Planetfall,:,â€œThis is the way I like to tour the solar system. Find a chair. Sit. Turn some pages. Gaze. Wonder.â€ â€”NPR.com
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Planetfall: New Solar System Visions