Probe Books

This book provides a good introduction into Monte Carlo simulation for so-called microbeam analysis.

I read this book to start up my work on image formation of scanning electron microscopy. This book was really useful to understand how the Monte Carlo technique could be realized in my lap-top.
Although the author provides a complete set of PASCAL codes,
it was not difficult to convert them into C/C++ based my programming codes.
This book contains many references, mainly journal papers.
So advanced modificaion may require ones to read these articles.
But without this kind of text book,
the analysis by Monte Carlo technique would be more difficult.

To understand the physical background of electron transport in a specimen,
I recommend to read SEM text books by Reimer or by Goldstein et al.

While the Moses Probe isn't available here, check out the Mundania Press edition. It is a kick.
The Author

Dirk Pitt going against an elder James Bond Character, what more needs to be said.

An excellent book. I highly recommend it. It is an expose of exactly what the world bankers and politicians are doing to manipulate the economies and workers of the world. Great information, well written. Don't miss it. It gives one much needed insights we must have in order to under stand today's world.

Published by NASA.Scientific & Tech Pub, 1983, Washington, DC, Trade Paperback, No Jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN: [0964553716]. 253pp. Profusely illustrated. A record of the voyage and discoveries of the Pioneer spacecraft, it's mission and it's discoveries. Includes information from Soviet studies of Venus, a chronology of the Pioneer mission and previous Earth-based discoveries and the NASA team responsible for this incredible project.

One of the few books about aerospace engineering that talks in detail about how real spacecraft were engineered.

This book mainly focus on STM. However, it doesn't cover much on AFM. The use of AFM has become increasingly popular in recent years in research investigation in various areas, including cell biology, DNA research, material science, nanotechnology, and so on. The editor may consider include detailed discussion on AFM in next edition (if any).

A very good textbook which can use by all schools

In the beginning half a century ago there was a real dichotomy between the perception of "manned" and "unmanned" missions. These days the difference stands between "planned", i.e. mostly imagined, manned multibillion missions with men on, say Mars, and the multihundred million real missions where you have spacecraft and instruments out among the planets, moons, comets, asteroids and whatnot, with their hardworking crews in the Mission Controls here on Earth. We invade the Solar Systems with programmable senses aboard the spacecrafts, tied to our perception with unseen electronic nerve connections. The Solar System enfolded, since the beginnings half a century ago, as a collection of much more hostile places than could be imagined during those decades when space technology was born and developed. Fortunately the technology of guidance and control, needed by process industry as well as by ballistic missiles could be adapted to spacecrafts.
Crafts in space - crew on the gound. Thus man is not put at risk, and through the years there has been a plethora of mishaps fatal to the craft, mostly only embarrassing for their crews and patrons. Most of the places visited by our spacecraft would be wery difficult environments for man, and some of them would be positively lethal. To this day almost all - with a few exceptions - of the invaders were sent out on one-way missions. Michel van Pelt has done us all a great service in describing in layman's language how all this came to be. He also describes how the "old" Solar System gradually is superseded by a new, more complete understanding of how the diversity of worlds still underline the commonality of the physical laws governing their evolution. Thus we gain a clearer understanding also of our own place in the scheme of things.
There has been a lot going on between the first Lunas and Pioneers of the nineteen fifties and the Cassini-Huygens, Deep Space, SMART-1 and Messenger of today, it takes an exposition as "Space Invaders" to give the full scope of our "robotic" exploration, which, of course, will be going on for the foreseeable future. If anything, there should be lots of excitement still ahead.
To explain the "how" and the "when" of all this, in a volume of some 300 pages, including glossary and index, is a tall order for anyone. van Pelt has accepted the challenge and comes through with flying colours. All the salient points get covered, in a lucid prose. During the reading the "why's" of it all unfold, bit by bit. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I found myself grinning from ear to ear as the chapters unfolded. The seeming rank injustice and gallows humor that is so often youth. It seems surprising that, despite society's best efforts, we often remain sane. I cannot say why, this book did help greatly. There is pain and tragedy as well, the scales are balanced, as are all too often our very lives. Well done.