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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 ...

Artificial Gravity

"This book reviews the principle and rationale for using artificial gravity during space missions, and describes the current ...

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 ...

Distant Worlds : Milestones in Planetary Exploration

Peter Bond provides an overview of key, unmanned missions, chapter by chapter, to planets in the twentieth century. He tells ...

Functional Verification of Programmable Embedded Architectures

This book presents a top-down validation methodology that complements the existing bottom-up approaches. It leverages the ...

Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems

Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems, Third Edition addresses robots at large - such as multi-fingered hands, walking ...

Fundamentals of Space Biology

This book is intended as an overview at the undergraduate or early university level and describes the effects of spaceflight ...

How Apollo Flew to the Moon

Out of the technological battlefield of World War II came a team of gifted German engineers and designers who developed the ...

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 ...

Its ONLY Rocket Science : An Introduction in Plain English

"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...

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 ...

Living Off the Land in Space

This book draws parallels with the settlement of terrestrial frontiers to investigate how new space propulsion techniques ...

Lunar and Planetary Rovers

The book provides extensive quotes from the astronauts who drove the LRV on the Moon from interviews conducted especially ...

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 ...

On the Moon: The Apollo Journals

This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily ...

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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