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Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented ...

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life : Caught in the Act of Formation

This book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into ...

An Assessment Framework for Compliance with International Space Law and Norms

proposes a framework for assessing countries’ levels of compliance with international space law and norms. It begins by ...

Cold Aqueous Planetary Geochemistry with FREZCHEM : From Modeling to the Search for Life at the Limits

At the core of the technical chapters is the FREZCHEM model, initially developed over many years by one of the authors to ...

Ionospheric Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Tools Approaches for Deriving Ionospheric Parameters

This book provides a comprehensive toolbox of analysis techniques for ionospheric multi-satellite missions. The immediate ...

La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell’Universo = The music of the Big Bang: How the cosmic background radiation revealed the secrets of the Universe to us

Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...

Life in the Universe : Expectations and Constraints

Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations ...

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 ...

Neutron Stars 1

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...

Plasma Astrophysics, Part II : Reconnection and Flares

Devoted to classic fundamentals, current practice, and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. The first part is unique ...

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 ...

Searching for Water in the Universe

In Searching for Water in the Solar System, Thérèse Encrenaz takes the reader on a journey through the Universe in search ...

Small Satellites for Earth Observation

This book deals with different aspects of small satellites for Earth observation: programmatics, current and planned Earth ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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