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  • Magnetic Fields in the Solar System

    Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions

    Edited by Hermann Lühr, Johannes Wicht, Stuart A. Gilder, Matthias Holschneider ...
    Series Book 448 - Astrophysics and Space Science Library
    This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field.Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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  • Alien Seas

    Oceans in Space

    Edited by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the clouds of Venus to features on the Moon's surface given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms." With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft exploration these ancient concepts of planetary seas have, for the most part, evaporated. But they have been ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Intelligent Life in the Universe

    Principles and Requirements Behind Its Emergence

    by Peter Ulmschneider ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. In particular, the author scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution and the likely future of mankind. The first part of the book ... Read more

    $80.19 CAD

  • Dawn of Small Worlds

    Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, Comets

    by Michael Moltenbrey ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book gives a detailed introduction to the thousands and thousands of smaller bodies in the solar system. Written for interested laymen, amateur astronomers and students it describes the nature and origin of asteroids, dwarf planets and comets, and gives detailed information about their role in the solar system. The author nicely reviews the history of small-world-exploration and describes ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • Space Manifold Dynamics

    Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration

    Edited by Ettore Perozzi, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

    $192.19 CAD

  • Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances

    Edited by Shuanggen Jin, Nader Haghighipour, Wing-Huen Ip ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earth’s gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere and astrobiology, Comet ionosphere, exoplanetary atmospheres and planet formation in binaries. By ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Inner Solar System

    Prospective Energy and Material Resources

    Edited by Viorel Badescu, Kris Zacny ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book investigates Venus and Mercury prospective energy and material resources. It is a collection of topics related to exploration and utilization of these bodies. It presents past and future technologies and solutions to old problems that could become reality in our life time. The book therefore is a great source of condensed information for specialists interested in current and impending ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Formation, Evolution, and Dynamics of Young Solar Systems

    Edited by Martin Pessah, Oliver Gressel ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Kinetic Theory of the Inner Magnetospheric Plasma

    by George V. Khazanov ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The inner magnetosphere plasma is a very unique composition of different plasma particles and waves. It covers a huge energy plasma range with spatial and time variations of many orders of magnitude. In such a situation, the kinetic approach is the key element, and the starting point of the theoretical description of this plasma phenomena which requires a dedicated book to this particular area of ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

    by Charles Byrne ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites

    Edited by Jean-Pierre de Vera, Joseph Seckbach ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to detect life elsewhere in the universe by the existing techniques and by the upcoming space missions? This book tries to give answers by focusing on environmental properties, which are playing a major role in influencing planetary surfaces or the interior of planets ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Mars

    From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries

    by Markus Hotakainen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    MARS ON OUR MINDS No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own . . . – Herbert George Wells: War of the Worlds (1898) Yes, they would. And they did, actually very firmly. In the last years of the nineteenth century it was almost an established fact that ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD