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A Martian year is approximately 668.6 sols, equivalent to approximately 687 Earth days [1] or 1.88 Earth years. The sol was adopted in 1976 during the Viking Lander missions and is a measure of time mainly used by NASA when, for example, scheduling the use of a Mars rover .
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven is a science fiction collection by American writer Larry Niven, collecting thirteen short stories published between 1964 and 1975 (all in Niven's Known Space future history) along with several essays by Niven and a chronology. This book was collected in Three Books of Known Space.
As the series opens, humanity has colonized an area of the galaxy roughly 100 light years in diameter. This area is called Sphere Sol, as it is the sphere of influence of the race from the star Sol, that is, the Sun. Sphere Sol's "neighborhood" is also home to other spheres, each centered around a particular star: Spheres Polaris, Canopus, Spica, Nath, Mirzam, and Bellatrix as well as the huge ...
Foundation and Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation series and chronologically the last in the series. It was published in 1986, four years after the first sequel to the Foundation trilogy, which is titled Foundation's Edge.
It is the fifth in the Known Space series of stories about crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. [ 1 ] The story was originally published in Analog , January 1975, printed in the collection Tales of Known Space , Niven, Del Ray, reissued 1985 ( ISBN 978-0-345-33469-5 ), and reprinted in Crashlander , Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1994, pp. 160 ...
The ship in "Breaking Strain" shares several similarities with Discovery One in the 1968 film and Clarke's 1968 novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey.Both ships have a spherical command module which is located a great distance away from the nuclear powered engines of the ship, connected by a long spine.
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Despite his wife's hesitations, he takes his children on a convincing trip to outer-space, one that they say they will "remember... for always." [ 1 ] In the end, his wife realizes what a wonderful memory he has given their children, even though the rocket never left the ground, and agrees to share a short trip in the rocket with him in the future.