Geophysical Exploration Of The Solar System

Author : Cedric Schmelzbach
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0443186995
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System written by Cedric Schmelzbach and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Geophysics serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in Advances in Geophysics serials Updated release includes the latest information on geophysical exploration of the solar system

Author : Kenneth R. Lang
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521422529
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wanderers in Space written by Kenneth R. Lang and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-03-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were the features on the Moon created?. What is the evidence for past or future life on Mars? What might cause the Earth to become as hot and steamy as Venus? . Why do some say that a colliding asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? From the earliest of times the human race has pondered upon the nature of the Heavens. The moons and planets have changed from mere points of light to fascinating, diverse worlds. Spacecraft have visited all the planets known to ancient people. Human beings have visited the Moon, and robot spacecraft have landed on Venus and Mars. This book presents the result of this captivating voyage of discovery, recording more than two decades of extraordinary accomplishments. The voyage starts with the still, silent and lifeless Moon. Then on to the contrasting world of Mars with its towering volcanoes and deep canyons. The exploration continues across asteroid belts and icy comets to the outer planets where Voyager II revealed cyclonic storms, liquid hydrogen and helium rain and the beautiful pink and blue dynamic world of Neptune. This book includes numerous photos from spacecraft as well as a few works of modern art. They provide the best available metaphors and images of the previously invisible worlds.

Author : Angelo Pio Rossi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331965179X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Geology written by Angelo Pio Rossi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparative description of processes acting on them. Planetary research today is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor with efforts coming from engineering and natural sciences. Key focal areas of study are the solid surfaces found in our Solar System. Some have a direct interaction with the interplanetary medium and others have dynamic atmospheres. In any of those cases, the geological records of those surfaces (and sub-surfaces) are key to understanding the Solar System as a whole: its evolution and the planetary perspective of our own planet. This book has a modular structure and is divided into 4 sections comprising 15 chapters in total. Each section builds upon the previous one but is also self-standing. The sections are: Methods and tools Processes and Sources Integration and Geological Syntheses Frontiers The latter covers the far-reaching broad topics of exobiology, early life, extreme environments and planetary resources, all areas where major advancements are expected in the forthcoming decades and both key to human exploration of the Solar System. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate students in geoscience-related topics with no specific planetary science knowledge; undergraduates in other natural science domains (e.g. physics, astronomy, biology or chemistry); graduates in engineering and space systems design who want to complement their knowledge in planetary science. The authors’ backgrounds span a broad range of topics and disciplines: rooted in Earth geoscience, their expertise covers remote sensing and cartography, field mapping, impact cratering, volcanology and tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy exobiology and life in extreme environments, planetary resources and mining. Several generations of planetary scientists are cooperating to provide a modern view on a discipline developed from Earth during and through Space exploration.

Author : R. A. Hanel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818971
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploration of the Solar System by Infrared Remote Sensing written by R. A. Hanel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition describing remote sensing of the Solar System through studies of infrared radiation.

Author : Gunter Faure
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402055447
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Planetary Science written by Gunter Faure and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook details basic principles of planetary science that help to unify the study of the solar system. It is organized in a hierarchical manner so that every chapter builds upon preceding ones. Starting with historical perspectives on space exploration and the development of the scientific method, the book leads the reader through the solar system. Coverage explains that the origin and subsequent evolution of planets and their satellites can be explained by applications of certain basic principles of physics, chemistry, and celestial mechanics and that surface features of the solid bodies can be interpreted by principles of geology.

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysics and Astronomy in Space Exploration written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mikhail Ya. Marov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401007128
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collisional Processes in the Solar System written by Mikhail Ya. Marov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration of our Solar System is rapidly growing in importance as a scientific discipline. During the last decades, great progress has been achieved as the result of space missions to planets and small bodies - as teroids and comets - and improved remote-sensing methods, as well as due to refined techniques of laboratory measurements and a rapid progress in theoretical studies, involving the development of various astrophysical and geophysical models. These models are based, in particular, on the approach of comparative planetology becoming a powerful tool in revealing evolu tionary processes which have been shaping the planets since their origin. Comets and asteroids, being identified as remnants of planetary formation, serve as a clue to the reconstruction of Solar System history because they encapsulated the primordial material from which the planets were built up. At the same time, these interplanetary carriers of original matter and mes sengers from the past, being triggered by dynamical processes well outside our neighboring space, were responsible for numerous catastrophic events when impacting on the planets and thus causing dramatic changes of their natural conditions. In the crossroads of astronomy and geophysics, recent years have seen a growing understanding of the importance of collisional processes through out the history of the Solar System and, therefore, the necessity to get more insight into the problem of interactions of planets and small bodies.

Author : Therese Encrenaz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783662104057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solar System written by Therese Encrenaz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever, planetology is a science in full development. The year 1989 has seen two important achievements: the exploration of Mars by the Phobos spacecraft, and the encounter of Neptune and its satellite Triton by the Voyager 2 probe. The first event marked the beginning of a new Mars exploration program, which will hopefully lead to a Martian return sample mission within the next fifteen years. The exploration of Venus will continue with Magellan, just launched by NASA. The second event ends the first stage of the space exploration of the giant planets. It has demonstrated the amazing variety of the objects encountered - planets, rings and satellites - which reflect the variety and the complexity of their formation and evolution processes. The next era in outer solar system exploration has just started with the launch of the Galileo mission, which will explore Jupiter and its Galilean satellites in 1995-1996. Hopefully, more and more ambitious missions will follow, in a fully international cooperative effort. The Cassini mission will be devoted to the Saturn system, with special emphasis on its satellite Titan. The space exploration of the small bodies will continue with rendezvous missions to cometary nuclei - in particular the CRAF mission (Comet Rendez-vous and Asteroidal Fly-by) - and possibly, asteroids, in preparation for the ultimate Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission, planned for the beginning of the next century. On the other hand, interplanetary medium studies will greatly benefit from the Ulysses and Soho-Cluster missions.

Author : Thérèse Encrenaz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662104032
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solar System written by Thérèse Encrenaz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.

Author : Thérèse Encrenaz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662031647
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solar System written by Thérèse Encrenaz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1990, planetology has seen a number of fascinating discoveries that have increased our knowledge of the Solar System. These have come from both ground- and space-based observa tional programmes. Although some space probe missions have ended in fail ure, even they have added to our store of information about the planetary environment. The Galileo probe, despite being crippled by its incompletely deployed main antenna, has already achieved some spectacular results. For the first time we have obtained pictures of asteriods, with the images that Galileo returned of Gaspra, Ida, and the latter's satellite, Dactyl. The main objective, the drop ping of an instrumented capsule into Jupiter's atomosphere, and prolonged in-situ investigation of the planet, will take place at the end of 1995. Saturn's turn will come early in the next century with the Cassini mission (to be launched in 1997), which will study the planet for an extended period and attempt to land the Huygens probe on the surface of Titan. NASA's Magellan mission proved to be a great success, with its highly detailed radar mapping of the surface, and atmospheric studies. The exploration of Mars was less fortunate with the failure of both spaceprobes of the Soviet Phobos mission, as well as NASA's Mars Observer probe. Despite this set back, plans are in hand for future, collaborative exploration of the planet, using both surface stations (possibly active rovers), surface penetrators and balloon probes, as well as orbiters.