Solar system: the Sun and planets

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of CO2 in relation to surface interactions and photocatalytic transformation by UV radiation.

This book is an original study aimed at understanding how vacuum magnetic fields change with time.

This book is based on an initiative made by the European Space Policy Institute, the European Centre for Space Law and the German Aerospace Center.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This textbook introduces the reader to the basic concepts and equations that describe stellar structure.

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

This book proposes a framework for assessing countries' levels of compliance with international space law and norms.

This book examines the background and context of Latin America's political and socioeconomic landscape with a focus on space activities.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

Designing a habitat for the lunar surface?

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty this book gives a first insight into where the next generation considers room for further improvement of the Outer Space Treaty in order to cope with upcoming aspects such as providing solutions for the emerging commercial, economic, environmental and social questions.

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation.

Here is an accurate and readable translation of a seminal article by Henri Poincare that is a classic in the study of dynamical systems popularly called chaos theory.

This book focuses on all of the major problems associated with the absence of body weight in space, by analyzing effects, adaption, and re-adaptation upon returning to Earth, using sound scientific principles embedded in a historical context.

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M.

This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics.

This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "e;Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds"e;.

This volume comprises a selection of papers describing the main features of the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands Geopark (Canary Archipelago, Spain).

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened.

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth's orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself.

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space.

This modern textbook guides the reader through the theory and practice of the motion and attitude control of space vehicles.

This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world's finest known examples.

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 6th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Delft, the Netherlands on Sep 24th-25th, 2019.

At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration.

Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets.

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems.

This book presents gravity aspects (gravity disturbance, Marussi tensor, two gravity invariants, their certain ratio, the strike angles, and the virtual deformations) which are computed and evaluated for the Moon, using the recent static global gravity field model (GRGM1200A) to degree and order of 600 in spherical harmonic expansion.

This book presents three major studies covering exomoon and exoplanet detection and characterisation.

This book presents recent results on the modelling of space plasmas with Kappa distributions and their interpretation.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet.

These are the proceedings of a meeting celebrating Michael Thompson's seminal work on solar and stellar physics, as well as his major contributions to the development of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program.

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface.

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America's space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras.

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content.

The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy.

The SpringerBriefs on Atmospheric and Space Sciences in two volumes presents a concise and interdisciplinary introduction to the basic theory, observation & modeling of atmospheric and ionospheric coupling processes on Earth.

This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP) and systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events.

This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, and its atmosphere and climate.

The book analyzes the various legal and political concepts to resolve the problem of the existing space debris in outer space and which measures have been taken to avoid space debris or to reduce potential space debris in the course of future space missions.

This book presents the latest knowledge of the newly discovered Earth-like exoplanets and reviews improvements in both radio and optical SETI.

This textbook is one of the first to explain the fundamentals and applications of remote sensing at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode's Law.

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play.

This book reports on the design and development of a system that assists remote pilots during the landing procedure.