Solar system: the Sun and planets

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs-a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars.

The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you ll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal.

The ideal textbook resource to support a one-semester capstone course in planetary processes for geoscience undergraduates.

This comprehensive introductory overview describes the emission of radiation (X-rays to radio) and the winds of host stars and how they control the past, present, and future evolution of an exoplanet.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores what makes the conditions on Earth ''just right'' to sustain life.

An engaging account of our quest for habitable environments, recounting fascinating recent discoveries and providing insight into future space missions.

Philosophers, historians, ethicists, and theologians provide the perspectives of their fields on astrobiology for graduate students and researchers.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958.

Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe.

Instead of taking somebody's word for it about the basic size and distance statistics for the solar system, this book shows amateur astronomers how to measure these things for themselves.

How planets form is one of the long-standing questions in astrophysics.

Presenting some of the most recent results of Russian research into shock compression, as well as historical overviews of the Russian research programs into shock compression, this volume will provide Western researchers with many novel ideas and points of view.

The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which highlight the major problems that need to be solved by any plausible theory.

From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet.

Neutron stars play a unique role in physics and astrophysics.

In Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Professor Jones has written a broad introduction to the subject, addressing important topics such as, what is life?

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books - to be published annually - will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from INCREASE 2023, Indonesia.

Beginning with the basic elements that differentiate space programs from other management challenges, Space Program Management explains through theory and example of real programs from around the world, the philosophical and technical tools needed to successfully manage large, technically complex space programs both in the government and commercial environment.

On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'.

Thisbook offers eleven coordinated reviews on multi-scalestructure formation in cosmic plasmas in the Universe.

This book is a rich source of information on design research and solutions for the support and development of space missions.

This up-to-date volume offers student researchers an unexcelled primer on current scientific knowledge about stars.

The rebirth of the Russian space program marks an important event: 50 years since the first Sputnik was launched on 4th October 1957.

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

Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows.

This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the field.

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

Apollo was known for its engineering triumphs, but its success also came from a disciplined management style.

This second, revised and thoroughly updated edition of the successful textbook by Claus Grupen describes the branch of astrophysics known as astroparticle physics.

Ever since the Montgolfier's hot air balloon carried a chicken, a goat, and a duck into the Parisian skies, scientists have dreamed of contraptions to explore the atmosphere.

This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics.

Richly illustrated and up-to-date, this book is a timely account of Pluto for general readers, amateur astronomers and students alike.

Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program.

This book for graduate students and researchers introduces examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment.

Given that the question of an internal magnetic field is of fundamental importance to the understanding of Mars' formation and thermal evolution, and of the evolution of Mars' atmosphere, surprisingly few of the many spacecraft sent to Mars were equipped with instrumentation for such investigations.

An interdisciplinary review of research in geomagnetism, aeronomy and space weather, written by eminent researchers from these fields.

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

My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification.

Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies still called asteroids today, are making front page news, particularly those that are newly discovered and those that might present a hazard to life on Earth by impacting our planet.

David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites.

Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this interdisciplinary book has widespread appeal.

This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010).

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

The workshop "e;Nonhnear MHD Waves and Turbulence"e; was held at the - servatoire de Nice, December 1-4, 1998 and brought together an international group of experts in plasma physics, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.

This book examines the U.

Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon to influencing the evolution of life on Earth.

This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in Earth Sciences.

The first comprehensive introduction to the dynamics of the Solar System - includes free Internet Mathematica® software package.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores what makes the conditions on Earth ''just right'' to sustain life.