Ralph Lorenz

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1) Exploring planetary climate: a history of scientific discovery on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan

Author

Lorenz, Ralph

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

2) Spinning flight: dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras, and skipping stones

Author

Lorenz, Ralph

Publisher

Springer

Pub. Date

2006

Language

English

3) Lifting Titan's veil: exploring the giant moon of Saturn

Author

Lorenz, Ralph

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

4) Planetary exploration with Ingenuity and Dragonfly: rotary-wing flight on Mars and Titan

Author

Lorenz, Ralph

Series

Library of flight

Publisher

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Incorporated

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"Planetary Exploration with Ingenuity and Dragonfly aims to lay out to 'space people' what they need to know about rotorcraft, and to 'helicopter people' what they need to know about delivering vehicles through space and operating them on other planets. Ingenuity is a small, solar-powered robotic helicopter which landed on Mars, along with the Perseverance rover, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission on February 18, 2021. On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity...