The New Worlds : Extrasolar Planets
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, ...
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The Outer Planets and their Moons
This volume gives an integrated summary of the science related to the four giant planets in our solar system. It is the result ...
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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 Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...
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The Sun : A User's Manual
The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...
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The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate
This book presents the lectures notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate" given ...
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Third Generation Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, is now the fastest growing technology for electricity generation. ...
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Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them
This book explains how to avoid equipment and set-up errors thousands of miles from home, advises on the right equipment ...
Lire la suiteTowards a Cleaner Planet
The world has entered a period of significant changes regarding the future of energy generation, mainly caused by the apparent ...
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Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...
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Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide : Basics and Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells
Zinc oxide (ZnO) belongs to the class of transparent conducting oxides which can be used as transparent electrodes in electronic ...
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Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System
The Sun is our main source of UV radiation and its description occupies the first two chapters of the book. The Earth is ...
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Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites
Chalcopyrites, in particular those with a wide band gap, are fascinating materials in terms of their technological potential ...
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