Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
For us to keep the Sun shining, we must first change our attitudes. We must put profit and short-term thinking aside. And ...
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This book presents the physical and technical principles of promising ways of utilising renewable energies. In this context, ...
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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions ...
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Saturn and How to Observe It
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, and the only one with a spectacular ring system easily visible from ...
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Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy ; Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-14 October 2005
This volume contains the proceedings of possibly the last conference ever on integral-field spectroscopy. The contributors ...
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Science with Adaptive Optics
The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in ...
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In Searching for Water in the Solar System, Thérèse Encrenaz takes the reader on a journey through the Universe in search ...
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Singularities in Gravitational Systems
Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have ...
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Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth
The SOHO and Cluster missions form a single ESA cornerstone. Yet they observe very different regions in our solar system. ...
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Solar Journey: The Significance of our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth
Humans evolved when the Sun was in the great void of the Local Bubble. The Sun entered the present environment of interstellar ...
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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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Solar System Astrophysics : Background Science and the Inner Solar System
Solar System Astrophysics: A Text for the Science of Planetary Systems covers the field of solar system astrophysics beginning ...
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Solar System Astrophysics : Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System
Solar System Astrophysics opens with coverage of the atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth, Venus and ...
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Solar System Update
This book, the first in a series of forthcoming volumes, consists of topical and timely reviews of a number of carefully ...
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Space Exploration 2008
The aim of the Space Exploration annuals is to provide a yearly update on recent space launches, missions and results, to ...
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Space Systems Failures
The very first book on space systems failures written from an engineering perspective. In the 1960s and 1970s deep space ...
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State of the Universe 2007
The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...
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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 Future of the Universe
A lot has been written about the history of the universe, from the Big Bang through the evolution of galaxies and stars, ...
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