Solar system: the Sun & planets books

2434 books were found.

The Composition of Matter: Symposium honouring Johannes Geiss on the occasion of his 80th birthday

The Composition of Matter: Symposium honouring Johannes...

Author: R. von Steiger ,  R. von Steiger
ISBN: 9781441925510
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Mason Space Sci Rev (2007) 130: 3–4 DOI 10.1007/s11214-007-9240-0 Acknowledgement Published online: 21 July 2007...  Read More >>

Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives

Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical,...

Author: Constance M. Bertka (AAAS, Washington)
ISBN: 9780511806506
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Where did we come from? Are we alone? Where are we going? These are the questions that define the field of astrobiology....  Read More >>

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA's Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change:...

Author: Bhaskar Ramachandran ,  Christopher O. Justice
ISBN: 9781441967480
Format: Hardback
$578.16

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: The Science of ASTER and MODIS is an edited compendium of contributions...  Read More >>

The Martian Climate Revisited: Atmosphere and Environment of a Desert Planet

The Martian Climate Revisited: Atmosphere and Environment...

Author: Peter L. Read ,  Stephen R. Lewis
ISBN: 9783642073908
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The atmosphere and climate of Mars is a crucial factor, both for understanding the planet's past and appreciating...  Read More >>

Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment

Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment

Author: Yohsuke Kamide ,  Abraham C.-L. Chian
ISBN: 9783642079689
Format: Paperback
$736.56

Recognized international leaders in their field contribute basic topics of solar physics, space plasmas and the...  Read More >>

Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them

Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them...

Author: Roger Dymock
ISBN: 9781441964380
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies...  Read More >>

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives...

Author: Richard Cohen
ISBN: 9780743259286
Format: Hardback
$126.61

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

On Sunspots

On Sunspots

Author: Galileo Galilei ,  Christoph Scheiner
ISBN: 9780226707167
Format: Paperback
$92.95

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when...  Read More >>

On Sunspots

On Sunspots

Author: Galileo Galilei ,  Christoph Scheiner
ISBN: 9780226707150
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when...  Read More >>

Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

Author: J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez ,  J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781441926876
Format: Paperback
$472.56

This rigorously refereed volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid...  Read More >>

Cryocoolers 13

Cryocoolers 13

Author: Ronald G. Ross, Jr.
ISBN: 9781441936707
Format: Paperback
$762.96

The last two years have witnessed a continuation in the breakthrough shift toward pulse tube cryocoolers for long-life,...  Read More >>

Atmospheric Boundary Layers: Nature, Theory, and Application to Environmental Modelling and Security

Atmospheric Boundary Layers: Nature, Theory, and Application...

Author: Alexander Baklanov ,  A. Baklanov
ISBN: 9781441925558
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Accordingly the models express turbulent uxes of momentum and scalars as products of the mean gradient of the transported...  Read More >>

Future Satellite Gravimetry and Earth Dynamics

Future Satellite Gravimetry and Earth Dynamics

Author: Jakob Flury ,  Reiner Rummel
ISBN: 9781441921314
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In particular, on the mass distribution in the Earth’s interior, the entire water cycle (ocean circulation, ice...  Read More >>

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity's Cosmic Context

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity's...

Author: Kevin Nolan
ISBN: 9781441922304
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Built on our legacy of Mars exploration from the Viking era and before, a far-reaching, phased, program of robotic...  Read More >>

Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight

Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight

Author: Michael R. Barratt ,  Sam Lee Pool
ISBN: 9781441931733
Format: Paperback
$551.76

Advances over the past decades in space flight technology have allowed U.S., Russian, and other space programs to...  Read More >>

Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective Plasma Processes: First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics held at the Kodaikanal Observatory, India, August 27 - September 7, 2007

Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective...

Author: S.S. Hasan ,  R. Gangadhara
ISBN: 9789048180110
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Quantum Plasmas, pair plasmas and pair-ion plasmas exist under extreme conditions in planetary interiors and exotic...  Read More >>

Astrophysics in the Next Decade: The James Webb Space Telescope and Concurrent Facilities

Astrophysics in the Next Decade: The James Webb Space...

Author: Harley A. Thronson, Jr ,  Massimo Stiavelli
ISBN: 9789048181322
Format: Paperback
$551.76

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have the capability to investigate - and answer - some of the most...  Read More >>

High-Velocity Clouds

High-Velocity Clouds

Author: Hugo van Woerden ,  Bart Wakker
ISBN: 9789048166855
Format: Paperback
$393.36

On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating...  Read More >>

Comets: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance

Comets: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical...

Author: Julio A. Fernandez
ISBN: 9789048168835
Format: Paperback
$498.96

Comets are small bodies, but of great cosmic relevance. I have taken the challenge to write a new book on comets...  Read More >>

Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics

Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics

Author: Edith Falgarone ,  Thierry Passot
ISBN: 9783642055454
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The present set of lectures is devoted to magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics with strong emphasis on...  Read More >>

The Sun and Space Weather

The Sun and Space Weather

Author: Arnold Hanslmeier
ISBN: 9789048174065
Format: Paperback
$462.00

Providing an introduction to the physics of the Sun, this book contains the following topics: possible influence...  Read More >>

3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres

3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres

Author: Alexander Marshak ,  Anthony Davis
ISBN: 9783642063039
Format: Paperback
$340.56

Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this...  Read More >>

Ionospheric Tomography

Ionospheric Tomography

Author: Viacheslav E. Kunitsyn ,  Evgeni D. Tereshchenko
ISBN: 9783642055799
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The purpose of this monograph is to set forth the tomographic methods developed for recovering the 2-D and 3-D structure...  Read More >>

Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes

Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes

Author: Arnold Hanslmeier
ISBN: 9783642095610
Format: Paperback
$366.96

The search for life in the universe is one of the most challenging topics of science. If life is in the extreme...  Read More >>

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