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Double Helix: How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life by Danielle Smith-Llera
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science and Maths | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of de ...Show more
Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship by Michael Burgan
$18.00 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it w ...Show more
Hubble Deep FieldHow a Photo Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe by Don Nardo
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Category: Space | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
A series of photos taken from space more than 20 years ago revealed thousands of unknown galaxies in a tiny patch of "empty" space. Called the Hubble Deep Field, the amazing image is made up of hundreds of photos combined into one. It was taken over the course of 10 days from the Hubble Space Telescope ...Show more
Mars Rover - How a Self-Portrait Captured the Power of Curiosity by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: Space | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity's mission on Mars, the ...Show more
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