Solar system: the Sun and planets

This book follows the development of research on the origin of the Moon from the late 18th century to the present.

Out of the technological battlefield of World War II came a team of gifted German engineers and designers who developed the vengeance weapon, the V-2, which evolved into the peaceful, powerful Saturn V rocket to take men to the Moon.

It is well known, that the Sun as central star of our solar system gravitationally controls the orbits of planets and minor bodies.

Provides the first interdisciplinary introduction to cosmochemistry, making this exciting and evolving field accessible to undergraduate and graduate students.

Graduate-level textbook providing a basic understanding of the astrophysical processes for readers in planetary science, and observational and theoretical astronomy.

In this book the background and context of Africa's political and socio-economic landscape is presented and unpacked through a primary needs approach which focuses on climate, biodiversity, health, water, education, and space-related capacity building.

Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Global maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter''s four large moons are compiled in this important atlas for researchers.

Based on 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations performed with unprecedented high resolution, this book examines the giant impacts that dominate many planets' late accretion and evolution.

Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011, and 2023.

The aim of the Space Exploration - 2007 is to provide an annual update on recent space launches, missions and results, to be published every year in September.

This book stems from the worrying scale and intensity of conflicts, humanitarian crises, and human rights violations around the world, which can be seen in a wide range of global hotspots including Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, Eritrea, and numerous others.

Ever since the serendipitous discovery of planet Uranus in 1871, astronomers have been hunting for new worlds in the outer regions of our solar system.

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

This book offers a tour of "e;the known galaxy"e;, here defined as the region of interstellar space closest to Earth.

The role of laboratory research and simulations in advancing our understanding of solar system ices (including satellites, KBOs, comets, and giant planets) is becoming increasingly important.

Since the discovery of the cluster soft excess (CSE) over eight years ago, its properties and origin have been the subject of debate.

Describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres, for researchers and graduates.

The existence of soft excess emission originating from clusters of galaxies, de ned as em- sion detected below 1 keV in excess over the usual thermal emission from hot intracluster gas (hereafter the ICM) has been claimed since 1996.

"e;The Hatfield Lunar Atlas"e; has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968.

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.

This volume is devoted to the dynamics and diagnostics of solar magnetic fields and plasmas in the Sun's atmosphere.

NASA's MESSENGER mission, launched on 3 August, 2004 is the seventh mission in the Discovery series.

The one thing for which this century will be remembered 500 years from now was: This was the century when we began the exploration of space.

The space between the stars contains a large diversity of objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to the structure and evolution of galaxies.

All magnetized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) interact strongly with the solar wind and possess well developed magnetotails.

Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan's space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago.

Julius Schmidt was one of the finest astronomical observers of his time, and his detailed map of the Moon surpassed anything that had come before.

TERRAFORMING MARS This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation.

A complete story of the human lunar experience, presenting many interesting but little-known events in lunar science for the first time.

Reference for graduate students and researchers in planetary sciences, volcanology, remote sensing and geology.

Der Mond – unser ständiger Begleiter und doch ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Potenziale.

Dawn Dusk Asymmetries in Planetary Plasma Environments Dawn-dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the plasma environment of many of the planets in our solar system.

A stunning visual reference on thirty of the greatest comets that have been witnessed and documented since the Middle Ages.

William H.

Presents a comprehensive review of physical processes in astrophysical plasmas.

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.

A detailed visual reference covering the exploration of Mars from 1953 to 2003 through annotated maps, photographs, tables and detailed mission descriptions.

In 1961, President John F.

Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun.

This updated second edition takes in the latest measurements.

Given the past decade's explosion of neurobiological and paleontologi- cal data and their increasingly sophisticated analyses, interdisciplinary syntheses between these two broad disciplines are of value and interest to many different scientists.

Space weather has attracted a lot of attention in recent times.

Starting in 1995 numerical modeling of the Earth's dynamo has ourished with remarkable success.

For the majority of amateur astronomers, who live at the latitudes of North America, the British Isles and Australia, the aurora is a relatively infrequent visitor to the night sky.

This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir's de-orbiting in March 2001, providing the definitive account of the Mir Space Station.

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.