Mercury
Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is different in several respects from the other three terrestrial planets. In appearance, ...
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Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth’s Surface : Recent Advances
Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and ...
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Neutron Stars 1
The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...
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Planetary Atmospheric Electricity
This volume presents our contemporary understanding of atmospheric electricity at Earth and in other solar system atmospheres. ...
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Plasma Astrophysics, Part II : Reconnection and Flares
Devoted to classic fundamentals, current practice, and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. The first part is unique ...
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Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight
Advances over the past decades in space flight technology have allowed U.S., Russian, and other space programs to not only ...
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Sirius Matters
Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity ...
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Small Satellites for Earth Observation
This book deals with different aspects of small satellites for Earth observation: programmatics, current and planned Earth ...
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Solar Energetic Particles A Modern Primer on Understanding Sources, Acceleration and Propagation
This book serves as a concise primer introducing the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP). ...
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Solar Sails :A Novel Approach To Interplanetary Travel
This book describes solar sails, how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space in an easily readable ...
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Spies in the Sky : Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace
Responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age – the launch of Sputnik 1 – with a review ...
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State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events
Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...
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Strategies of Life Detection
The search for life outside the Earth has been one of mankind's most challenging quests. We have reached a level of technology ...
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The Economics of Big Science Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers
The essays in this book identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects ...
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The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle
This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) ...
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The International Space Station : Building for the Future
A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating ...
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The STEREO Mission
The STEREO mission uses twin heliospheric orbiters to track solar disturbances from their initiation to 1 AU. This book ...
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The Universe in X-Rays
In the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
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Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective Plasma Processes : First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics Held at the Kodaikanal Observatory Kodaikanal, India, August 27 – September 7, 2007
It is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma ...
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