Solar system: the Sun and planets

Deep-Sky Video Astronomy is a concise guide to using modern integrating video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur astronomers.

Helio- and asteroseismology study the interior of the Sun and other stars, by means of observations of oscillations on their surfaces.

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Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions.

A highly illustrated account of the birth, evolution and future of our solar system.

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

The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published.

"e;Stellar Physics"e; is a rather unique book in the growing literature on star formation and evolution.

This book on high-energy cosmic rays deals in its first part with the standard model of cosmic rays, describing how they are born in a wide range of cosmic processes, how they are accelerated and how they interact with matter, magnetic fields and radiation during their journey across the Galaxy.

For almost three decades since Mariner 2 flew by the planet in December 1962, Venus has been the subject of intense investigation by both the Soviet and American space programs.

The book begins at the Sun then travels through the solar system to see the stars, how they work, and ultimately what they mean to us.

Most of practically-used turbulence closure models are based on the concept of downgra- ent transport.

Satellite remote sensing for Earth science data has been rapidly expanding during the last decade.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

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Leading researchers in the area of the origin and evolution of life in the universe contributed to Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life.

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

During the 30 years of space exploration, important discoveries in the near-earth environment such as the Van Allen belts, the plasmapause, the magnetotail and the bow shock, to name a few, have been made.

Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation and the five decades during which artificial satellites have monitored the Sun - that is to say for 99.

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

Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA's first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded.

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

In the past decade, the field of small satellites has expanded the space industry in a powerful way.

What was our planet like before the advent of our modern civilization?

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.

Research on extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of activity in astrophysics.

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon.

This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors.

Reinventing Space is the largest global conference and exhibition for one of the space industry's fastest growing sectors.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IConSpace 2023), held at Penang in Malaysia.

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor.

This book, edited by the European Space Policy Institute, is the first international publication, following UNISPACE+50, to analyze how space capacity building can empower the international community towards fully accessing all the economic and societal benefits that space assets and data can offer.

In Cosmic Biology, Louis Irwin and Dirk Schulze-Makuch guide readers through the range of planetary habitats found in our Solar System and those likely to be found throughout the universe.

This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space.

This book examines the U.

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

In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way.

Young addresses the impressive expansion across existing and developing commercial space business markets, with multiple private companies competing in the payload launch services sector.

This book presents the first overview of the composition and structure of the Earth's lower mantle.

The problem of cosmic ray (CR) geomagnetic effects came to the fore at the beg- ning of the 1930s after the famous expeditions by J.

This complete introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion by one of the pioneering scientists in this expanding field offers both a simple and intuitive discussion of the basic concepts of this subject and an insight into the challenging problems of current research.

Many astrophysical bodies produce winds, jets or explosions, which blow spectacular bubbles.

In the past 25 years, planetary science has undergone a revolution with the discovery of vast oceans of liquid water within the icy moons of our Solar System.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Australian impact structures and related mineralization, including a discussion of the significance of many of these structures for crustal evolution.

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value (including the ultimate value of space-related activities) which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society.

This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015.

This book includes a carefully curated selection of contributions that were presented at the 17th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps) held in Dubai, UAE, from March 6th to 10th, 2023.

An outgrowth of the first Asia-Pacific Regional School on the International Heliophysical Year (IHY), this volume contains a collection of review articles describing the universal physical processes in the heliospace influenced by solar electromagnetic and mass emissions.

The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.