Solar system: the Sun and planets

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing.

This book addresses why China is going into space and provides up- to-date information on all aspects of the Chinese Space Program in terms of launch vehicles, launch sites and infrastructure, crew vehicles for space exploration, satellite applications and scientific exploration capabilities.

This book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be, used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union's Agenda 2063.

Have you ever stopped at a construction project on the way to your of?

The definition of all space systems starts with the establishment of its fundamental parameters: requirements to be fulfilled, overall system and satellite design, analysis and design of the critical elements, developmental approach, cost, and schedule.

A comprehensive guide to carbon inside Earth – its quantities, movements, forms, origins, changes over time and impact on planetary processes.

The purpose of this Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy (GAA) is to list, define and illustrate, for the first time, every named (as opposed to merely catalogued) object in the sky within a single reference work for use by the general reader, writers and editors dealing with astronomical themes, and those astronomers concerned with any aspect of astronomical nomenclature.

This book provides an overview of key topics related to space business and management.

A comprehensive and authoritative text on the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, for graduate-level students and researchers.

Philip Baker charts the history of manned space stations from the very beginning in a logical, chronological order.

Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts - based on Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity - are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy.

Captures advances being made in the field of coronal magnetism, from theory to observations and instrumentation.

The present well-established study of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, the exoplanets, was reviewed by the author in his earlier book Wandering Stars.

This textbook offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation, which is fundamental for an understanding of classical mechanics and is particularly relevant to Astrophysics.

It was with pleasure that CAUP became for three days the core to the cloud of star formation experts all over the world.

The joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission promises to return four (and possibly more) years of unparalleled scientific data from the solar system's most exotic planet, the ringed, gas giant, Saturn.

This thought-provoking book looks at the nature of red dwarf systems as potential homes for life.

An accessible and engaging account of the history of climate science and exploration on Earth and other planetary bodies.

This updated introductory textbook, with added learning features, explains how the Sun influences the Earth and its near-space environment.

Develops a fresh mathematical approach to coronal seismology, explaining oscillatory phenomena by drawing upon original research and complex modelling techniques.

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside down, and pressure readings on hydrogen tank supplies on board the Space Shuttle Discovery peaked, causing NASA to consider aborting the mission.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

"e;An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun"e; is intended for students and researchers who work in the area of solar and astrophysics.

Examines humanistic aspects of astrobiology, exploring approaches, critical issues, and implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

This book includes the proceedings of the conference "e;Problems of the Geocosmos"e; held by the Earth Physics Department, St.

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: The Science of ASTER and MODIS is an edited compendium of contributions dealing with ASTER and MODIS satellite sensors aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua platforms launched as part of the Earth Observing System fleet in 1999 and 2002 respectively.

The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement describes feasible human settlement of the Moon in the coming century.

Long before humans wrote, we painted.

A textbook on Mars for graduate students and researchers, in geology, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, and astronomy.

A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art techniques, models and research methods in modern astronomical polarimetry.

Demonstrates the application of image registration for creating mosaics of satellite images and tracking temporal changes at the Earth''s surface.

New advanced astrobiology textbook providing the most comprehensive coverage currently available.

*; Explores a wide variety of anomalous structures on Mars's surface that display a high degree of geometric and pictographic design*; Examines sites such as the Elysium pyramid famously described by Carl Sagan and city complexes in the Nepenthes Mensae and Atlantis Chaos regions*; Argues that Mayan creation stories of a Star War and Sumerian myths of the Anunnaki provide ancient evidence for the existence of a Martian cultureExploring evidence of a lost Martian civilization and its contact with Earth, investigator George Haas examines a wide variety of anomalous structures and geoglyphs on Mars's surface that display a high degree of geometric and symbolic design that reveal an ancient bond between Earth and Mars.

Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.

A summary of the ideas surrounding the origin and history of chondrules and chondrites.

The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West.

This book describes the discovery of quasicrystals (icosahedral and decagonal) in an extraterrestrial rock from the Koryak Mountains of Far Eastern Russia.

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe.

Explores the possible nature of extraterrestrial life, and how similar it may be to life on Earth.

"e;Manned Spaceflight Log"e; discusses over 40 recent spaceflights from September 2006 through September 2012, a time of great change in human spaceflight history.

A practical primer for aspiring observers of the planets and other Solar System objects, written by an experienced amateur astronomer.

The 17 chapters of this book grew out of the tutorial lectures given by leading world-class experts at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "e;Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure"e; - ESPRIT, which was held in Rhodes on March 25-29, 2004.

Presents new algorithms for determining orbits; ideal for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics, astronomy and aerospace engineering.

This book presents the Green's function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches.

This book provides an overview of the basic concepts and new methods in the emerging scientific area known as quantum plasmas.

Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared.

This book is an essential reference volume that surveys tectonic landforms on solid bodies throughout the Solar System.

An accessible and engaging account of the history of climate science and exploration on Earth and other planetary bodies.

Public interest in the first lunar landing transcended political, economic and social borders - the world was briefly united by the courage of the crew, and the wonder of the accomplishment.