Elsevier, 2018. — 549 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-813325-5. This book covers the physical, chemical and spectroscopic aspects of asteroids, providing important data and research on carbonaceous chondrites and primitive meteorites. This information is crucial to the success of missions to parent bodies, thus contributing to an understanding of the early solar system. The book offers an...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 57 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy). — ISBN: 978-94-007-6633-4 (eBook), 978-94-007-6632-7 (Softcover). Electrical processes take place in all planetary atmospheres. There is evidence for lightning on Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is possible on Mars and Titan, and cosmic rays ionise every atmosphere, leading to charged droplets...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 396 p. — (Cambridge Planetary Science). — ISBN: 9781107629424. Planet formation studies uniquely benefit from three disciplines: astronomical observations of extrasolar planet-forming disks, analysis of material from the early Solar System, and laboratory astrophysics experiments. Pre-planetary solids, fine dust, and chondritic components are...
Springer, 2019. — 292 p. — (Saas-Fee Advanced Course 45). — ISBN: 978-3-662-58686-0. Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not?...
Springer, 2013. — 710 p. — ISBN: 9783642392436. This is a third volume of a Springer book series making an inventory of the material and energy resources of our Solar system. The first two books, referring to resources existent on Mars and Moon, were published in 2009 and 2012, respectively. This book presents a present-day perspective on the asteroids’ energy and material...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 382 p. The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technologically driven renaissance, as fundamental discoveries are being made with astonishing frequency. In the last decade, new detectors in space, on earth, and deep underground have, when coupled with the computational power of modern computers, revolutionized our knowledge and...
Wiley, Weinheim, 2010, 275 pages, ISBN: 3527408967 This single, coherent review of the theory behind extrasolar planet formation and interaction systematically covers all aspects of the topic, including different formation processes, planet-planet scattering, giant planets and brown dwarfs. With a chapter on observation, careful referencing and an elaborate bibliography at the...
Springer, 2022. — 297 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 466). — ISBN 978-3-030-88123-8. This book provides a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of key observational and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet science, as viewed through the lenses of eight world-class experts. It equips readers with a broad...
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 297 p. This book provides a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of key observational and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet science, as viewed through the lenses of eight world-class experts. It equips readers with a broad understanding of the complex processes driving the formation and the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 233 p. After decades of painstaking planning and preparation, NASA’s first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, was launched on March 6, 2009, from pad SLC-17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Kepler’s launch on a Delta II rocket was a spectacular sight on a dark, humid Florida night, as the bright...
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 207 p. In this book, renowned scientists describe the complexity of exoplanetary atmospheres and all of the observational techniques that are employed to probe them. Readers will also find a panoramic description of the atmospheres of the planets within the Solar System, with explanation of considerations especially relevant to...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 262 p. – ISBN10: 3319274562 Clearly describes the different techniques used to detect and characterize exoplanets Explains the techniques’ advantages and limitations and their complementary roles Meets the needs of researchers in planetary science looking to expand their knowledge of detection techniques In this book,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 457 p. — (Cambridge Planetary Science 17) — ISBN10: 1107096847. Asteroid science is a fundamental topic in planetary science and is key to furthering our understanding of planetary formation and the evolution of the Solar System. Ground-based observations and missions have provided a wealth of new data in recent years, and forthcoming...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2007. - 488p. This book provides an updated overview of the processes determining the influence of solar forcing on climate. It discusses in particular the most recent developments regarding the role of aerosols in the climate system and the new insights that could be gained from the investigation of terrestrial climate analogues. The book’s structure mirrors...
2nd edition. — Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2022. — 102 p. Electrostatic phenomena, ubiquitous on Earth, also occur on many planetary bodies of the solar system. This book describes what is known about the electrostatic environment on and near the different planetary surfaces in the solar system based on experiments on Earth, as well as what is being learned from instrumentation on...
New York: IOP Concise Physics, 2017. — 83 p. The diverse planetary environments in the solar system react in somewhat different ways to the encompassing influence of the Sun. These different interactions define the electrostatic phenomena that take place on and near planetary surfaces. The desire to understand the electrostatic environments of planetary surfaces goes beyond...
2nd Edition. — IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022. — 103 p. — ISBN 978-0-7503-3889-9. For this new edition, we have added a new chapter on space radiation that includes the types of radiation, how they are measured, their effects on materials and humans, and how radiation can be mitigated. We have also moved the sections on the electrostatic environment of Jupiter into a separate...
New York: Wiley-VCH , 2016. - 432 p.
For readers from both academia and industry wishing to pursue their studies and /or careers in planetary robotics, this book represents a one-stop tour of the history, evolution, key systems, and technologies of this emerging field.
The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the key techniques and technologies that help to achieve...
Berlin: Springer, 2006. — 462 p. Research on extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of activity in astrophysics. In a decade only, a huge step forward has been made from the early speculations on the existence of planets orbiting "other stars" to the first discoveries and to the characterization of extrasolar planets. This breakthrough is the result of a growing...
International Geophysics Series, 1978, Volume 22 . Academic Press, New York, London, 1978. – 344 pp As atmospheric physics has grown and become complicated, it has (like all subjects) encouraged its practitioners to specialize. No one understands the entire atmosphere very well; the last generalist was probably Aristotle. Yet the applied problems we face today often require...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 145 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-966210-4,019966210X. Spectroscopy and radiative transfer are rapidly growing fields within atmospheric and planetary science with implications for weather, climate, biogeochemical cycles, air quality on Earth, as well as the physics and evolution of planetary atmospheres in our solar system and beyond. Remote sensing and...
Springer-Verlag New York, 2013 — 116p. — (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy) — ISBN: 978-1-4614-7762-4 (eBook), 978-1-4614-7761-7 (Softcover). Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural...
LOP Publishing Ltd 2002. — 505 p. a review of the solar system. the unity of the universe. the sun and other stars. the planets. the terrestrial planets. the major planets and pluto. the moon. satellites and rings. asteroids. comets. meteorites. dust in the solar system. theories of the origin and evolution of the solar system. Topics. basic mineralogy. geochronology -...
2nd ed. — Hoboken: CRC Press, 2013. — 701 p. List of Figures Unity of the Universe Cosmic Abundance of the Chemical Elements Some Examples Problems The Sun and Other Stars The Galaxy Field Stars Binaries and Clusters Composition of Stars Interstellar Medium Dense Cool Clouds Heating and Cooling of Galactic Gases Scenario for Producing a Dark Cool Cloud Formation of a Galactic...
Independently published, 2024. — 86 p. Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of the solar system’s most captivating giant—Jupiter. Bigger than a thousand Earths, with storms that rage for centuries and moons that might harbor the secrets of life, Jupiter stands as a guardian, protector, and cosmic enigma. In "Jupiter Unveiled," you’ll uncover the...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 687 p. — ISBN 10 1107091616. An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this award-winning textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. This updated second edition has been revised and improved while...
New York: Reaktion Books, 2020. — 208 p. — (Universe). — ISBN 978-1-78914-338-6. Thirty years ago the only planets we knew were the ones orbiting our own Sun; we now know of thousands of other worlds orbiting distant stars. In this book astronomer Niall Deacon journeys to twenty of these globes: from giant, blisteringly hot planets orbiting close to their parent stars to...
Springer, 2018. — 3441 p. — (Springer Referance). — ISBN: 3319553321. This state-of-the-art reference work includes over 15 sections dealing with all aspects of exoplanets and exobiology research, including historic aspects, the Solar System as a template, objects at the planet-to-star transition, exoplanet detection and characterization with related instrumentation, technology...
Nova Science Publishers, 2012. — 174 p. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the classification, geology and exploration of asteroids and meteorites. Topics discussed include meteorites and their asteroidal parent bodies; the diversion and exploitation of ice-rich NEOs using the solar collector; radar characteristics of asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24);...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 568 p. Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest- energy particles in nature — the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — cannot be confined by the Milky Way’s magnetic field, and must originate from sources outside our...
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. — 770 pp. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 358). — ISBN: 978-1-4020-9238-1 (Print) 978-1-4020-9239-8 (Online).
This monograph describes the behaviour of cosmic rays in the magnetosphere of the Earth and of some other planets. Recently this has become an important topic both theoretically, because it is closely connected with...
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. – 297 p. – ISBN: 3527406719 This latest, up-to-date resource for research on extrasolar planets covers formation, dynamics, atmospheres and detection. After a look at the formation of giant planets, the book goes on to discuss the formation and dynamics of planets in resonances, planets in double stars, atmospheres and...
Springer, 2005. - 300 pages. Proceedings of the Sixth Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium on Celestial Mechanics Bad Hofgastein The papers in this volume cover a wide range of subjects covering the most recent developments in Celestial Mechanics from the theoretical point of nonlinear dynamical systems to the application to real problems. We emphasize the papers on the formation...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. — 281 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 683). — ISBN: 978-3-540-34556-5 (eBook), 978-3-642-42179-2 (Softcover), 978-3-540-28208-2 (Hardcover). This book is intended as an introduction to the field of planetary systems at the postgraduate level. It consists of four extensive lectures on Hamiltonian dynamics, celestial mechanics, the...
Springer, 2005. — 288 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 683). — ISBN: 978-3-540-34556-5. This book is intended as an introduction to the field of planetary systems at the postgraduate level. It consists of four extensive lectures on Hamiltonian dynamics, celestial mechanics, the structure of extrasolar planetary systems and the formation of planets. As such, this volume is...
JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009. – 194 pages. Our planetary system Other planetary systems The surfaces of the planets The interiors of the planets The atmospheres of the planets The dynamics of planetary systems The small objects in planetary systems The origin of planetary systems Life in planetary systems Answers Appendix A. The epoch of planetary exploration Appendix B....
Revised Edition. — Facts On File, Inc., 2010. — 289 p. — (The solar System). — ISBN: 978-1-4381-3186-3 (e-book) The field of asteroids, meteorites, and comets is moving so quickly that it has affected the whole of planetary science. The great numbers and significant sizes of the bodies found in the distant Kuiper belt have forced a redefinition of what a planet is, effectively...
New York: Chelsea House. – 2006. – 255 p. (The Solar System) The Solar System set explores the vast and enigmatic Sun at the center of the solar system and also covers the planets, examining each and comparing them from the point of view of a planetary scientist. The Earth and the Moon will address the Earth in part 1. Chapter 1 covers fundamental aspects of the Earth as a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 419 p. Processes governing the evolution of planetesimals are critical to understanding how rocky planets are formed, how water is delivered to them, the origin of planetary atmospheres, how cores and magnetic dynamos develop, and ultimately, which planets have the potential to be habitable. Theoretical advances and new data from...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 258 p. — (Cambridge Planetary Science). — ISBN: 9781107028821. Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings, including results from Cassini's Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter. The book introduces basic physical processes and...
Washington: National Academies Press, 2019. — 186 p. The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation and evolution of planets has matured, spurred on by the avalanche of unexpected discoveries. Appreciation of the factors that make a...
Scientific American Editors, 2022. — 180 p. — ISBN 9781466858985. Экзопланеты: миры без конца In the two decades since astronomers first discovered the existence of a planet outside of our solar system, "exoplanetology" has become the hottest specialty in astrophysics. Scientists young and old, inspired by the thought of finding either another habitable world or the Holy Grail...
Springer, 2023. — 175 p. The purpose of this book is the presentation of various dynamical systems that occur in the Solar System, in the systems of exoplanets, and in other celestial systems in which chaotic behavior is observed, with emphasis on the diagnostic techniques used to detect the occurrence of chaos. The discussion of each case presented in the book is based on...
Springer, 2023. — 175 p. The purpose of this book is the presentation of various dynamical systems that occur in the Solar System, in the systems of exoplanets, and in other celestial systems in which chaotic behavior is observed, with emphasis on the diagnostic techniques used to detect the occurrence of chaos. The discussion of each case presented in the book is based on...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 307 p. – ISBN10: 3319322907 Presents unique physics and mechanism of creation, separation and orbiting of the bodies of the Solar System. Shows that expansion and decay of the Universe as a whole is the base of the hierarchy of celestial bodies. Provides a solid basis for further research in celestial mechanics,...
Springer, 2018. — 98 p. — (Studies in Space Policy 13). — ISBN: 978-3-319-70433-3. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty this book gives a first insight into where the next generation considers room for further improvement of the Outer Space Treaty in order to cope with upcoming aspects such as providing solutions for the emerging commercial,...
Elsevier, 2022. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-0128219750. Electrostatic Dust Mitigation and Manipulation Techniques for Planetary Dust explains how to control and remove dust in space due to the presence of a vacuum, abrasiveness of dust particles and electrostatic charge on particles. Методы снижения воздействия электростатической пыли и управления планетарной пылью Chapter 1....
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 328 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-14172-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-691-14173-2 (paperback) This book provides readers with the skills they need to write computer codes that simulate convection, internal gravity waves, and magnetic field generation in the interiors and atmospheres of rotating planets and stars. Using a teaching method perfected in the...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 328 p. This book provides readers with the skills they need to write computer codes that simulate convection, internal gravity waves, and magnetic field generation in the interiors and atmospheres of rotating planets and stars. Using a teaching method perfected in the classroom, Gary Glatzmaier begins by offering a step-by-step guide on how...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — 312 p. This book provides an understanding of the theoretical foundations for the calculation of electromagnetic processes. Photon production processes are particularly important in astrophysics, since almost all of our knowledge of distant astronomical objects comes from the detection of radiation from these sources. Further, the conditions...
2nd edition. — New York: Chapman&Hall, 1994. — 286 p.
В первой части книги — главы об изучении геологического строения планет Солнечной системы, геоморфологических процессах на их поверхности, а также "планетарных ландшафтах" Луны, Меркурия и Венеры (страницы 1 — 152).
This introduction to planetary geology concentrates on the surface features of the planets and satellites...
2nd edition. — New York: Chapman&Hall, 1994. — 286 p.
Во второй части книги — главы о "планетарных ландшафтах" Марса, Юпитера, Сатурна, Урана и Нептуна и их спутников (страницы 153 — 286).
This introduction to planetary geology concentrates on the surface features of the planets and satellites of our Solar System. The author first discusses the primary processes that shape...
CRC Press, 1996. — 394 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-40132-7. This book is based on the author's lectures at the Yerevan State University, Yerevan Polytechnic Institute and to Soviet cosmonauts. Oriented toward students, it includes details on Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet's impact with Jupiter, flight of Ulysses over the Solar poles, and Voyagers' solar system tour. The Universal Law of...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 586 p. — (Cambridge Planetary Science) — ISBN: 978- 1- 107- 01618- 7. Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early...
Springer, 2010. — 322 p. ISBN: 9048186862. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Vol. 366. This volume presents the reader with the current state of the research on the detection and formation of planets in binary stars, written by teams of experts on these topics. The discovery of extrasolar planets over the past decade has had major impacts on our understanding of...
Springer, 2020. — 387 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-24867-3. Intended for a one- or two-semester course, this text applies basic, one-variable calculus to analyze the motion both of planets in their orbits as well as interplanetary spacecraft in their trajectories. The remarkable spacecraft missions to the inner and outermost reaches of our solar system have been one of the greatest...
World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 262 p. – (Advances in Planetary Science 03). – ISBN: 9813237422. The search for exoplanets and habitable objects in general is one of the fastest growing and most prominent fields in modern astrophysics. This book provides an overview on habitability on exoplanets. Habitability is strongly dependent on stellar activity. Therefore, space...
Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2020. — 329 p. The Doppler method is a key instrument in exoplanet detection, covering a wide range of techniques and expertise: high-resolution stellar spectroscopy, time series analysis, and periodic signal detection within non-Gaussian noise. This book provides a deep understanding of the Doppler method, including how to achieve a high RV measurement...
IOP Publishing, 2020. — 328 p. — (AAS–IOP Astronomy). — ISBN 978-0-7503-1687-3. The study of exoplanets is one of the most vibrant fields of astrophysics today. Precise radial velocity (RV, or Doppler) measurements created the field by discovering the first exoplanets. Although employed for more than 30 years, RV measurements are still relevant today; when used with the transit...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2005. — 707 p. This volume represents a blend of leading edge research and authoritative reviews in meteor science. It provides a comprehensive view of meteoroid research including the dynamics, sources and distribution of these bodies, and their chemistry and physical processes in the interplanetary medium and the Earth’s atmosphere. Techniques for...
Boston: Elsevier, 2022. — 234 p. Machine Learning for Planetary Science presents planetary scientists with a way to introduce machine learning into the research workflow as increasingly large nonlinear datasets are acquired from planetary exploration missions. The book explores research that leverages machine learning methods to enhance our scientific understanding of planetary...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 296 p. — (Princeton Series in Astrophysics) . — ISBN: 0691166986, 0691166978. The study of exoplanetary atmospheres—that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—may be our best hope for discovering life elsewhere in the universe. Exoplanetary Atmospheres provides an essential introduction to the theoretical foundations of this...
2nd Ed. — Springer, 2010. — 329 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 815). — ISBN: 978-3-642-13259-9, 978-3-642-13258-2.
Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general. This field has received a tremendous boost with the reliable identification...
Elsevier, 2020. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-818430-1. This book provides a better understanding of the interior of the Earth by addressing the processes related to the motion of heat in large bodies. By addressing issues such as the effect of self-gravitation on the thermal state of the Earth, the effect of length-scales on heat transport, important observations of Earth, and a...
MIT Press, 2023. — 376 p. The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home. Planet Earth, it turns out, may not be the best of all possible worlds—and lately humanity has been carelessly depleting resources, decimating species, and degrading everything needed...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. - 288p.
This concise, sophisticated introduction to planetary climates explains the global physical and chemical processes that determine climate on any planet or major planetary satellite-from Mercury to Neptune and even large moons such as Saturn's Titan. Although the climates of other worlds are extremely diverse, the chemical and...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2009. — 450 p.
This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation are reviewed and their recently observed temperature, composition and cloud structures are contrasted and compared with simple thermodynamic, radiative transfer and...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2009. — 450 p. — ISBN: 978-3-540-85157-8. This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation are reviewed and their recently observed temperature, composition and cloud structures are contrasted and compared with simple thermodynamic,...
Springer, 2006. — 354 p. — (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences). — ISBN 978-3540313176. This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation are reviewed and their recently observed temperature, composition and cloud structures are contrasted and...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. – 203 p. – ISBN10: 331939245X Disseminates all the relevant information about space natural resources missions from various countries and their legal aspects, both international and national Uses evidence-based information from the space missions of all the key space-faring nations, with systematic description of missions...
Elsevier, 2023. — 840 p. Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A brief introduction to meteor showers Atlas scope and outline Methods Explanation of the data presented Meteoroid orbit surveys CAMS: The global Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance network CAMSS: The CAMS spectrograph SonotaCo: The SonotaCo Network GMN: The Global Meteor Network SAAMER-OS: The Southern Argentina...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 803 p. — ISBN: 0521853494, 0521076358. Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 803 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-85349-1. Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at...
Springer-Verlag, 1990. — 227 p. The surfaces of interstellar and interplanetary grains, planetary satellites, ring particles, asteroids, Mercury and the Moon, etc. are all directly exposed to radiations. Solar wind, magnetospheric plasmas, cosmic rays, solar energetic particles, and U.V. photons can all produce chemical and physical alterations. These alterations affect the...
A Penguin Random House Company, London, GB, 2016. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0241240425 An easy-to-understand overview of the state of our planet and its future, using eye-opening and accessible charts, graphs, and infographics. By 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion. What's Really Happening to Our Planet? uses a graphic approach to chart the dramatic explosion of...
St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 288 p. Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is...
IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021. — 140 p. — ISBN 978-0-7503-2120-4. Планетарная обитаемость Understanding planetary habitability is one of the major challenges of the current scientific era, and is a vast inter-disciplinary undertaking that combines planetary science, climate science, and stellar astrophysics. This book provides an overview of the many processes that influence the...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. — 117 p. ISBN: 978-1-60413-017-1 Thousands of years ago, people looked at the sky in wonder, fascinated by the motions of a few wandering "stars." Nobody understood where these wandering objects now named Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn came from, why they moved, or what drove their motions through the sky. Today, people know these...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. — 350 p. Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gripped our imagination. Is Earth so rare that advanced life forms like us--or even the simplest biological organisms--are unique to the universe? How to Find a Habitable Planet...
Cambridge University Press, 2006, 318 pages, ISBN: 0521860156, 0521180740 When this book was published in 2006, it had been just over ten years since the first planet outside our solar system was detected. Since then, much work has focused on understanding how extrasolar planets may form, and discovering the frequency of potentially habitable Earth-like planets. This volume...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015. — 362 p. — (Metal Ions in Life Sciences 15) — ISBN: 9783319124148 In this volume of the Metal Ions in Life Sciences series the mastering of dioxygen (O 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), and ammonia (NH 3 ) by mainly manganese-, iron- and copper-dependent metalloenzymes and their biomimetic complexes is discussed. Light-Dependent...
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 814 p. This book develops the statistical mechanics of the formation of gravitating cosmogonical bodies in the investigation of our solar system and other exoplanetary systems. The first part of the text acquaints the reader with the developing statistical theory of gravitating cosmogonical body formation. Within the...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 — 98p. — (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy) — ISBN: 978-3-642-32087-3 (eBook), 978-3-642-32086-6 (Softcover). Based on the author’s own work and results obtained by international teams he coordinated, this SpringerBrief offers a concise discussion of the origin and early evolution of atmospheres of terrestrial planets during the active phase...
World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd, 2023. — 438 p. Planetary Systems Now offers a broad, interdisciplinary perspective and introduction to the latest results from leading experts in each field. It offers an unusually wide range of research on topics both inside and outside of the solar system, as well as the most recent results from ongoing ground- and space-based...
University of Arizona Press, 2023. — 214 p. Bennu, named for the ancient Egyptian phoenix, was the chosen destination of OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s premier mission of asteroid exploration, launched in 2016. Study of the asteroid is important in safeguarding the future of planet Earth, but Bennu is also a time capsule from the dawn of our Solar System, holding secrets over...
EDP Sciences, 2020. — 213 p. More than 4300 planets around nearby stars! Who could have imagined this extraordinary harvest only thirty years ago? As the vast majority of stars are surrounded by planets, we can surmise that there must be more than a hundred billion planets in our Galaxy. The Solar system is therefore very far from unique. However, it looks quite different from...
Deep Space Industries Inc., 2015. — 162 p. — ISBN10: 0990584208 The emerging asteroid mining industry has extremely ambitious intentions. It is within the realm of possibility that their work may usher in a change in global economics as profound as the Industrial Revolution. As may be expected, press reports dealing with asteroid mining have been numerous, ranging in scope from...
International Geophysics Series, 1983, Volume 33 . Academic Press, New York, London, 1983. – 480 pp. The past 20 years have seen an explosive growth in our knowledge of the solar system. Both Earth-based observational techniques (radio, radar, and high-resolution infrared spectroscopy) and spacecraft missions (reaching Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and en...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 583 pp. A quantitative introduction to the Solar System and planetary systems science for advanced undergraduate students, this engaging new textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets, as well as how life interacts with a planet. The authors provide an...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 651 p. A quantitative introduction to the Solar System and planetary systems science for advanced undergraduate students, this engaging textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. The authors provide an overview of our current knowledge and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 195 p. Humans have long thought that planetary systems similar to our own should exist around stars other than the Sun, yet the search for planets outside our Solar System has had a dismal history of discoveries that could not be confirmed. However, this all changed in 1995, after which astonishing progress can be seen in this...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 182 p. One of the world’s most distinguished astrophysicists presents a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the dynamical evolution of globular clusters. Lyman Spitzer’s research in this field established the framework for decades of investigation. Now he summarizes in a unified, systematic way this branch of theoretical astrophysics with...
Springer, 2009. — 329 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 758). — ISBN: 978-3-540-76935-4, 978-3-642-09559-7, 978-3-540-76934-7.
The small bodies in planetary systems are indicative of the material evolution, the dynamical evolution and the presence of planets in a system. Recent astronomical research, space research, laboratory research and numerical simulations have brought a...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 945 p. — ISBN: 9780393928136. The leading authors in their respective fields physical geology and extreme weather Stephen Marshak and Robert Rauber bring years of classroom and research experience to this remarkable new book and media package. The authors' narrative approach to the content and innovative integration of new visual and interactive...
Springer, Praxis Publishing Ltd, 2008, 314 pages, ISBN: 3540740074 This edited, multi-author volume will be an invaluable introduction and reference to all key aspects in the field of exoplanet research. The reviews cover: Detection methods and properties of known exoplanets, Detection of extrasolar planets by gravitational microlensing. The formation and evolution of...
Icon Books, 2019. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-785784-93-5. As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 248 pp. With the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting another star, we now realize that planets are not unique to our own Solar System. For centuries, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the Universe. We are now finally one step closer to knowing the answer. The quest for exoplanets is an exciting one because it holds the...
McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 1961. — 390 p. Данная книга является классической монографией по метеорным исследованиям канадского учёного Дональда МакКинли, основанная на программе исследований 50-60-х гг. XX в. Национального Исследовательского Совета Канады, г. Оттава. В основу монографии легли исследования по визуальному, фотографическому и радионаблюдению метеоров. Historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-14538-2. For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 156 p. — ISBN: 0521861497, 0521711126. Space weather is an emerging field of space science focused on understanding societal and technological impacts of the solar-terrestrial relationship. The Sun, which has tremendous influence on Earth's space environment, releases vast amounts of energy in the form of electromagnetic and particle...
New York, 2014. — 256 з. ISBN: 1465424644, ISBN13: 9781465424648 Featuring all-new 3D models built using data gathered by NASA and the European Space Agency, The Planets is an awe-inspiring journey through the Solar System, from Earth to Mars and beyond.
Springer, 2016. – 212 p. – ISBN10: 3319318357 This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs. Moving from history and anecdotal information to science, the book's structure is provided by the names of the asteroids, including one named after the author. Free from a...
Нардо Д. «Кометы и астероиды» Lucent Books, 2004 г. , 112 стр., на английском языке. Contents: Comets demystified, asteroids discovered; How asteroids and comets formed; Vital statistics of asteroids and comets; Voyages to the comets and asteroids; How humans will mine asteroids and comets; When comets and asteroids strike earth.
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. — 351 pp. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library). — ISBN: 978-3-540-75747-4 (Print) 978-3-540-75748-1 (Online).
Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2013, 545 pages, ISBN: 978-90-481-8817-8 Presents comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art 21st century Planetary Systems research Provides the essential background and directs readers to other seminal literature on the topics discussed Well-suited for lecturers and students as material for advanced courses in astronomy Volume 3 of...
New York, USA: DK, 2020. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4654-8990-6. The launch of Mars rovers by NASA, Europe, and China in 2020 will be the biggest science news of the year and will reveal more about Mars than ever before. Get ahead with this amazing new book, which explores the evidence for past life on Mars, what's happening there now, and what it might look like to one day live on...
Cambridge University Press, 2014 — 424 pp. — ISBN: 9781107668560. Exoplanet research is one of the most explosive subjects in astronomy today. More than 500 exoplanets are now known, and groups world-wide are actively involved in a broad range of observational and theoretical efforts. This book ties together these many avenues of investigation – from the perspectives of...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 974 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-41977-2. With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their discovery and characterisation. With more than 3,500 exoplanets now known, the complexity of the...
New York: Springer, 2017. — xiv, 374 p. This book’s interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical...
Springer, 2017. — xiv, 374 p. — ISBN: 3319606085. This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex...
TED Books, 2015. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-1-476784-76-0. Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable. It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative...
CRC Press, 2020. — 236 p. — ISBN: 978-0-367-02271-6. This book provides readers with an understanding of the basic physics and mathematics that governs our solar system. It explores the mechanics of our Sun and planets; their orbits, tides, eclipses and many other fascinating phenomena. This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate students studying astronomy and should be...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN 978–0–19–884112–8. Not long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system - a star and the bodies orbiting it - that we knew. Now, we know thousands of planetary systems, and have even been able to observe planetary systems at the moment of their birth. For many decades, we were only...
World Scientific Publ., 2019. — 202 c. — (Advances in Planetary Science 04). — ISBN: 9789813275126. Astrophysical research has led to the detection of thousands of planets outside the Solar System. About one-tenth of the extrasolar planets discovered so far reside in binary- or multi-stellar systems, and some of the closest known rocky exoplanets populate these multiple-star...
Imagine Publishing Ltd, 2016. – 132 p. – ISBN: 1785462806 Throughout history, humankind has looked up at the stars and wondered what they were. Playing a central role in mythology, philosophy and superstition, it wasn’t until the rise of astronomy that we began to understand these celestial bodies. After Galileo Galilei’s incredible discovery, we now know the role of the Sun as...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2014. - 151p. Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution, runaway greenhouse and loss of atmosphere to...
Bentham Books, 2023. — 259 p. — ISBN 978-9815080725. Новые миры: колонизация планет, лун и не только Terraforming is the process of modifying a planet, moon, or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature, or ecology. The idea of terraforming or colonizing other planets has recently become a topic of intense scientific interest and public debate. Geoengineering and...
Bloomington, USA: Red Lightning Books, 2020 — ISBN: 978-1-68435-136-7. Странная Земля: Разоблачение Странных Идей Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to science and critical thinking, these ideas...
Emeryville, California, USA: Rockridge Press, 2020. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64739-913-9. The universe is huge. With more than 100 billion galaxies and billions of orbiting astronomical bodies, there’s so much to learn. Rocket through the cosmos, and discover everything there is to know about our exciting and mysterious solar system! Our Solar System The Sun The Inner Solar...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 478 p. This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparative description of processes acting on them. Planetary research today is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor with efforts coming from engineering and natural sciences. Key focal areas of study...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 144 p. From the rings of Saturn to the "canals" of Mars and the Great Red Dot of Jupiter, the planets of our Solar System have long fascinated humanity. Featuring many striking photos, this Very Short Introduction offers a fascinating portrait of the unique world of each planet as well as an illuminating discussion of moons, asteroids, and...
Dordrech: Springer. – 2005. – 395 p. This volume provides an in depth examination of the Deep Impact mission: the system architecture, the scientific payload, the history and dynamics of the target, 9 P/Tempel 1, and the expected properties of the nucleus and the coma. It also describes the expected results of the mission: remote sensing of the geology of the surface, the size...
CRC Press 2021. — 295 p. — ISBN 978-0367441241. The determination of stellar ages has been - and still is - crucial for the development of our understanding of the universe, and to constrain theoretical models for the formation of galaxies and the evolution of planetary systems. Stellar ages provide scientists with timescales, and these timescales allow us to identify the...
CRC Press, 2011. — 587 p. Planetary atmospheres is a relatively new, interdisciplinary subject that incorporates various areas of the physical and chemical sciences, including geophysics, geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric science, astronomy, and astrophysics. Providing a much-needed resource for this cross-disciplinary field, An Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012. – 396 p. – ISBN: 3642431631; 3642032559 The investigation of minor solar system bodies, such as comets and asteroids, using spacecraft requires an understanding of orbital motion in strongly perturbed environments. The solutions to a wide range of complex and challenging problems in this field are reviewed in this comprehensive and...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. — 302 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 656). — ISBN: 978-3-540-31534-6 (eBook), 978-3-642-42152-5 (Softcover), 978-3-540-22907-0 (Hardcover). The various processes that connect the physics of the Sun with that of the Earth`s environment has become known as "Space Weather" during recent years, a slogan that has emerged in connection with...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 489 p. This book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the...
2nd Edition. – Praxis Publishing Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008. – 608 p. – ISBN: 0387360557 This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on the Moon, and highlights the use of the Moon as a base for an early warning system from which to combat threats of...
New York: Elsevier, 2015. - 742 p. Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and in-depth study of the physics of the Earth beyond what any geophysics text has provided previously. Thoroughly revised and updated, it provides fundamental and state-of-the-art discussion of all aspects of geophysics. A highlight of the second edition is a new volume on Near Surface...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. — 258 p. Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical...
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. — 545 p. For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 264 p. Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets — planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes — including...
Springer, 2013. - 309 pp. Weird Worlds is the third book in David Seargent’s Weird series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the odd and interesting aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work features the most unusual features of these worlds and the ways in which they...
Praxis Publishing Ltd, Royston, Herts, UK, 2005. – 266 p. – ISBN: 1852337923 MARSWALK ONE: First Steps on a New Planet addresses the question of why we should embark on a journey to Mars, documenting what the first human crew will do when they place their feet in the red dust of the planet. The book also addresses why we need to carry out these tasks and, more importantly, what...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 350 p. The world was stunned when an undetected asteroid catastrophically exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013, injuring over 1000 people. Luckily, such events are very rare. More commonly, asteroids skim the Earth without impact, as in March 2014, when three asteroids hurtled past our planet within a few days. Where do...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 263 p. Introducing planetary photometry as a quantitative remote sensing tool, this handbook demonstrates how reflected light can be measured and used to investigate the physical properties of bodies in our Solar System. The author explains how data gathered from telescopes and spacecraft are processed and used to infer properties...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 194p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 441) — ISBN: 978-3-319-43522-0 (eBook), 978-3-319-43520-6 (Hardcover). This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research. The Lidov-Kozai effect reveals itself in coherent periodic variations (which can be very large) of the...
Springer,2015 — 160 p. — ISBN: 3319210386. This book is the first to document in depth the history of lunar and planetary cartography in Russia. The first map of the far side of the Moon was made with the participation of Lomonosov Moscow University (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) in 1960. The developed mapping technologies were then used in preparing the "Complete Map...
University Science Books, 1992. - 491 p. This two-volume text on The Physics of Astrophysics grew from my lecture notes for the reorganized two-semester sequence. It is aimed at first-year graduate students and well-prepared seniors in astronomy and physics. Although these two volumes were written to form a coherent whole, they can be decoupled for use in separate courses. In...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. — 208 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 682). — ISBN: 978-3-540-32455-3 (eBook), 978-3-642-06630-6 (Softcover), 978-3-540-28024-8 (Hardcover). Taking both a theoretical and observational perspective, this book is an introduction to recent developments in the field of celestial mechanics. It emphasizes the application to extended celestial...
Elsevier, 2009, 641 pages, ISBN: 0444534652 Planets and Moons covers topics relating to the physics of the major planetary bodies in the solar system, starting with an introductory description of the solar system and collection of pertinent data, continuing with a discussion of the early history of the planets, and finishing with articles about planet dynamics, thermal...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — xiv, 264 p. — (Cambridge planetary science series, 8). — ISBN 0-521-26103-1, 978-0-521-26103-6, 0-521-61923-8 , 978-0-521-61923-3. Multi-ring basins are large impact craters formed in the early history of planets. They critically affect the evolution of the planets and their satellites. The Moon offers an exceptional chance to study these...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — xiv, 264 p. — (Cambridge planetary science series, 8). — ISBN 0-521-26103-1, 978-0-521-26103-6, 0-521-61923-8 , 978-0-521-61923-3. Multi-ring basins are large impact craters formed in the early history of planets. They critically affect the evolution of the planets and their satellites. The Moon offers an exceptional chance to study these...
Smithsonian Books, 2016. — 272 р. — ISBN: 978-1588345035. While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain a world leader in...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 272 p. A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond. Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma flows, and ice volcanoes. Interior tides. Asteroids filled with gold. In What's Hidden Inside Planets? planetary scientist Dr....
New York: Springer, 2016. - 463 p. David Stevenson’s new book links the meteorology of the Earth to that of other planets, stars, and clusters of galaxies, showing the similarities and differences between terrestrial weather and that of weather on other worlds. Because Earth is not unique in having weather, there is much to learn from other planets with atmospheres that show...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010. — 305 p. Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star in 1995, nearly 500 planets have been detected, with this number expected to increase dramatically as new ground-based planetary searches begin to report their results. Emerging techniques offer the tantalizing possibility of detecting an Earth-mass planet in the...
USA, Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2017. — 253 p. — ISBN: 9781588345950. The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the...
Springer-Verlag New York, 2016. — 333 p. — (Space Sciences Series of ISSI 50). — ISBN: 978-1-4939-3395-2 (eBook), 978-1-4939-3394-5 (Hardcover). Readers will find grouped together here the most recent observations, current theoretical models and present understanding of the coupled atmosphere, magnetosphere and solar wind system.The book begins with a general discussion of...
Springer, 2020. — 295 p. — (Space and Society). — ISBN: 978-3-030-42035-2. This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts operating in hostile space environments, but also...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017. — 221 p. Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is rising fast. These new-found worlds are more alien than anything in fiction. Planets larger...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 524 p. Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysics. Jean-Louis Tassoul synthesizes a large number of theoretical investigations on rotating stars. Drawing upon his own research, Professor Tassoul also carefully critiques various competing...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 404 p. — (Cambridge Planetary Science). — ISBN: 9780521142014. This is the first book ever published to explain how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Written by two leading authorities on the subject, it presents a geochemical and geological survey of the crusts of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid Vesta,...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 593 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-11382-4. Planetary rings are among the most intriguing structures of our solar system and have fascinated generations of astronomers. Collating emerging knowledge in the field, this volume reviews our current understanding of ring systems with reference to the rings of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and more. Written by...
Leiden: Leiden University, 2021. — 266 p. The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed. With arrays of radio telescopes, I observed the environments where the first stages of star and planet formation occur. This thesis focuses on characterizing different components of young protostellar systems, most notably their...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010. — 437 pp. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library). — ISBN: 978-1-4419-1683-9 (Print) 978-1-4419-1684-6 (Online).
Is the Earth, in some way, special? Or is our planet but one of the millions of other inhabited planets within our galaxy? This is an exciting time to be asking this old question, because for the first time in history, the...
Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press Ltd., 2013. — 218 p. Recent planetary missions by NASA, the European Space Agency, and other national agencies have reaffirmed that the geological processes which are familiar from our studies of the Earth operate on many solid planets and satellites. Common threads link the internal structure, thermal evolution, and surface character of both...
Springer International Publishing, AG, 2017. — 80 p — (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy) — ISBN: 3319611968. This book explores various relations between extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. The star is often the only visible component in the system, by far the dominant source of energy, and incorporating most of the system mass. Consequently, the parent star...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 305 p. A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them. At this point, more than five thousand such...
Panguin Random House LLC, 2016. — 246 p. — ISBN: 0804197970 From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs—Elon...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — xii, 302 p. — ISBN 0-19-967288-1, 978-0-19-967288-2. Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend, but in terms of their role in the Earth system, in regulating...
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999. — 305 p. — ISBN: 0-87477-975-8. Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most...
Prometheus, 2019 — 408 p. — ISBN: 9781633885356 (ebook) | ISBN: 9781633885349 (hardcover) A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it.A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to...
Под общей редакцией А. Д. Архангельского, В. А. Костицына, Н. К. Кольцова, П. П. Лазарева, Л. А. Тарасевича. Перевод с немецкого под редакцией В. А. Костицына. — Москва-Петроград: Государственное издательство, 1923. — 134 с. — (Современные проблемы естествознания. Книга 10). Происхождение звездопочитания. Положение и практическое значение астрономии. Почитание звезд....
Государственное издательство Москва-Петроград, 1923. — 134 с. Имя Сванте Аррениуса не нуждается в рекомендации русской читающей публике: оно хорошо ей известно по прежним его книгам космогонического характера, выдержавшим и на русском языке ряд изданий: «Образование миров» и «Представление о мироздании на протяжении веков». Эта книга отчасти дополняет предыдущие, но имеет в...
Душанбе: Дониш, 1974. — 171 c. Данная монография посвящена анализу результатов исследования воздушных течений в метеорной зоне земной атмосферы, полученных в разных пунктах земного шара по радиолокационным наблюдениям метеоров. Подробно изложена методика радионаблюдений дрейфа метеорных следов и оптимизации обработки данных. Описывается радиолокационная аппаратура, применяемая...
Москва: Мир, 1980. - 631 с. Книга представляет собой подробный обзор наших знаний о естественных спутниках планет, написанный ведущими специалистами. В 27 главах книги рассматриваются динамическая эволюция, методы наблюдений и физические характеристики спутников, а также проблема их происхождения. Приводятся богатый справочный материал в виде таблиц и обширная библиография....
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1954. - 612 с.
Фёдор Александрович Бредихин широко известен во всём мире как один из крупнейших астрономов XIX в., в первую очередь как творец теории кометных форм и теории происхождения метеорных потоков из комет. Однако почётное место, занимаемое Ф. А. Бредихиным в истории русской науки, связано не только с замечательными плодами его научной...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1954. — 612 с. Фёдор Александрович Бредихин широко известен во всём мире как один из крупнейших астрономов XIX в., в первую очередь как творец теории кометных форм и теории происхождения метеорных потоков из комет. Однако почётное место, занимаемое Ф.А. Бредихиным в истории русской науки, связано не только с замечательными плодами его научной...
М.: Сельянов А.Д., 2000. — 312 с. — ISBN: 5-901273-04-4. Тунгусская катастрофа - уникальное событие в жизни Земли. В атмосферу планеты влетело и полностью разрушилось гигантское космическое тело массой от 1 до 5 миллионов тонн. В результате взрыва образовались мощные ударные волны, повалившие лес на расстояниях в десятки километров, а лучистый ожог деревьев стал причиной...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 416 с. Книга посвящена проблеме физики метеорных явлений, т. е. явлений, сопровождающих вход в земную атмосферу метеороидов — космических тел в широком диапазоне масс от 10-12 до 1012 г. Рассматриваются процессы торможения и потери массы метеороидов в атмосфере, особенности движения в атмосфере крупных тел, формирующих ударную волну. Подробно рассматривается...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 416 с.: ил. Книга посвящена проблеме физики метеорных явлений, т. е. явлений, сопровождающих вход в земную атмосферу метеороидов — космических тел в широком диапазоне масс от 10-12 до 1012 г. Рассматриваются процессы торможения и потери массы метеороидов в атмосфере, особенности движения в атмосфере крупных тел, формирующих ударную волну. Подробно...
М.: Наука, 1965. — 110 с. Введение: Характеристике оптических аномалий лета 1908 г., связанных с падением Тунгусского метеорита, посвящена обширная литература, в том числе ряд сводных статей. Однако, несмотря на большие усилия, уже приложенные к решению данного вопроса, многое остается неясным. Так, остаются невыясненными природа ночных светящихся облаков, получивших...
М.: Наука, 1965. — 110 с. Введение: Характеристике оптических аномалий лета 1908 г., связанных с падением Тунгусского метеорита, посвящена обширная литература, в том числе ряд сводных статей. Однако, несмотря на большие усилия, уже приложенные к решению данного вопроса, многое остается неясным. Так, остаются невыясненными природа ночных светящихся облаков, получивших...
М.: Университетская книга, 2010. - 116 с. В учебном пособии изложены представления о физических явлениях в межпланетной плазме и магнитосфере Земли. Дано краткое описание физических условий на Солнце, основы теории солнечного ветра и межпланетного магнитного поля. Исходя из теории движения заряженных частиц в электромагнитном поле Земли, рассматриваются важнейшие свойства...
М.: Вече, 2001. — 432 с. — (Великие тайны). — ISBN 5-7838-0817-2.
В книге содержится обширный фактический материал о Тунгусском метеорите: популярное изложение истории вопроса, освещение результатов проведенных обширных исследований, перечень наиболее распространенных гипотез. В книге приводятся данные, позволяющие, как считает автор книги, дать разгадку проблемы Тунгусского...
М.: Вече, 2001. — 432 с. — ISBN: 5-7838-0817-2. — (Великие тайны). В книге содержится обширный фактический материал о Тунгусском метеорите: популярное изложение истории вопроса, освещение результатов проведенных обширных исследований, перечень наиболее распространенных гипотез. В книге приводятся данные, позволяющие, как считает автор книги, дать разгадку проблемы Тунгусского...
М.: Вече, 2008. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-2214-0. B обозримой истории человечества по масштабам наблюдаемых явлений трудно найти более загадочное событие, чем падение Тунгусского метеорита, которое произошло 30 июня 1908 года в далекой сибирской тайге. Ученые многих стран мира бьются над раскрытием этой тайны, периодически оповещая о разгадке Тунгусского феномена. Удалось ли...
М.: Вече, 2008. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-2214-0. B обозримой истории человечества по масштабам наблюдаемых явлений трудно найти более загадочное событие, чем падение Тунгусского метеорита, которое произошло 30 июня 1908 года в далекой сибирской тайге. Ученые многих стран мира бьются над раскрытием этой тайны, периодически оповещая о разгадке Тунгусского феномена. Удалось ли...
М.: Слово, 2000. - 48 с. Вот уже несколько столетий, используя все более и более мощные телескопы, астрономы пытливо вглядываются в крохотные, неясные изображения планет. За это время их движение было изучено почти досконально, но о самой природе этих небесных тел и о том, что происходит на их поверхности, ученые еще совсем недавно знали до обидного мало. За последние...
Москва: Наука, 1981. — 187 с. Приводятся результаты измерения в Харькове в 1972-1977 гг. численности метеоров и индивидуальные характеристики метеоров. Работа выполнена по глобальному радиометеорному проекту изучения ветра. На базе экспериментальных данных методом математического моделирования оценивается плотность потока метеорных тел, распределение плотности радиантов...
Издательство: БИНОМ, 2011. — 445 c.
Тунгусский взрыв 1908 года уже столетие представляет научную проблему из-за того, что факты, с ним связанные, вступают в противоречие друг с другом. В книге показано, как различные гипотезы, объясняющие эти факты, могут быть соединены в рамках единого научного мировоззрения.
Из вступительной статьи Г. М. Гречко:
"Книгу эту писали умудренные...
Киев: УМК, 1989. — 75 с. Описываются метеорные явления в верхней атмосфере Земли. Подробно анализируется рассеяние метровых радиоволн на метеорных следах. Рассматриваются вопросы использования метеорного распространения радиоволн в связи. Приведен пример реализации аппаратуры для высокоточного сличения шкал разнесенных территориально эталонов времени и частоты. Учебное пособие...
Под ред. Б. И. Макаренко. — Киев, 1989. — 144 с. Излагаются физические и теоретические основы синхронизации шкал времени с использованием отражений радиоволн от метеорных следов, рассматриваются принципы построения аппаратурных комплексов метеорной синхронизации шкал времени (МСПШ), освещаются вопросы их применения и проектирования.
Киев: Техника, 1996. — 196 с. Рассмотрены метеорные явления в атмосфере Земли. Обсуждены основные результаты исследований метеоров радиометодами, выполненных в Харькове в астрономическом, геофизическом и прикладном направлениях. Приведены основные особенности наклонного рассеяния УКВ на метеорных следах. Обсуждаются методы построения и основные характеристики систем связи и...
Москва: АН СССР, 1961. — 123 с. Огромные успехи, достигнутые за последние годы в освоении космического пространства, потребовали всестороннего изучения процессов, происходящих как вблизи Земли, так и в солнечной системе в целом. Знание физических условий в верхней атмосфере совершенно необходимо при полетах человека в космос. Это заставляет по-новому, более всесторонне и...
Москва: Наука, 1967. — 260 с. Всестороннее изучение верхних слоев атмосферы, а также межпланетного и околоземного космического пространства привело к возникновению новых направлений исследований, развивающихся на стыке нескольких наук. Одно из них — это изучение метеоров и связанных с ними явлений в атмосфере Земли методом радиолокации. Радиолокационные наблюдения позволяют...
Москва: ВИНИТИ, 1980. — 232 с. В работе приведены результаты радиолокационных наблюдений слабых метеоров, проведённые с помощью метеорной автоматизированной радиолокационной системы МАРС, созданной в Харьковском институте радиоэлектроники. Введение. Технические средства радионаблюдений метеоров. Методика проведения наблюдений и обработки результатов. Результаты наблюдений....
Москва: Наука, 1965. — 64 с. Задача изучения планетарной циркуляции атмосферы на различных высотах настоятельно требует определений научной направленности исследований, наиболее подходящей аппаратуры, методики обработки результатов. В настоящей работе эти вопросы рассматриваются исходя из современных представлений о движениях неоднородностей ионизации в ионосфере и накопленного...
М.: ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша, 2017. — 372 с. Монография посвящена разработке континуальных моделей турбулентных космических сред, лежащих в основе постановок и численных расчётов задач образования, пространственной структуры и эволюции различных астрофизических объектов (в частности, аккреционных протопланетных дисков). Целью исследования является феноменологическое конструирование...
М.-Ижевск: Институт космических исследований, 2017 - 138 с. Современные представления о структуре, динамике и формировании планетных систем у других звёзд, месте Солнечной системы среди других. Проблемы формирования планетных систем и их динамической устойчивости. Резонансы и миграция, определяющие динамическую структуру планетных систем. Планетные системы двойных звёзд. Особое...
Учебное пособие. — М.: Физмалит, 2022. — 192 с. — ISBN 978-5-9221-1955-9. В книге рассмотрены проблемы физики, динамики и космогонии внесолнечных планет (экзопланет) и планетных систем. Экзопланеты представляют собой новый широчайший класс астрономических объектов, возможности исследований которых открылись лишь с конца прошлого столетия. Благодаря постоянно совершенствуемым...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 264 с. Теория переноса излучения является важным орудием астрофизических исследований. Она быстро развивается и находит разнообразные применения, в частности, в решении задач оптики планетных атмосфер. Цель монографии -- дать астрономам и специалистам в смежных областях сведения о современном этапе развития теории, которая изложена в форме, удобной для...
Теория переноса излучения является важным орудием астрофизических исследований. Она быстро развивается и находит разнообразные применения, в частности, в решении задач оптики планетных атмосфер. Цель монографии -- дать астрономам и специалистам в смежных областях сведения о современном этапе развития теории, которая изложена в форме, удобной для применений. Значительное внимание...
Москва: Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова, Физический факультет, 2001. — 117 с. Геофизика. Элементы сейсмологии. Гравитационное поле планеты. Гравитационное поле и внутреннее строение Земли. Тепловое поле и возраст Земли. Приливы. Геофизика на Луне. Планеты земной группы. Планеты гиганты. Плутон.
М.: Мир, 1965. — 360 с.
Введение
Данные наблюдений
Кинетические свойства коронального газа
Гидростатические свойства короны
Расширение невозмущенной короны
Гидродинамическая модель невозмущенной короны и солнечный ветер
Перенос энергии в короне
Внезапное расширение короны
Распространение солнечного ветра в межпланетном пространстве
Межпланетные магнитные поля...
М.: Мир, 1965. — 360 с. Предлагаемая читателю книга известною астрофизика Е. Паркера посвящена проблеме образования потоков плазмы, непрерывно испускаемых Солнцем (солнечный ветер), и их роли в динамике межпланетной среды. Е. Паркер первым высказал мысль о такого рода водородном ветре, существование которого приводит к важным геофизическим следствиям и признается сейчас...
М.: Физматлит, 1973. — 360 с. История открытий и исследований малых планет. Методы наблюдения малых планет. Определение орбиты малой планеты по малому числу наблюдений. Улучшение орбит малых планет. Основные уравнения планетной теории. Асимптотические методы планетной теории. Квазипериодические и периодические движения. Численные методы небесной механики. Малые планеты как...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 224 с. Обобщаются результаты изучения астероидов и метеоритов, полученные разными методами в нашей стране и за рубежом. Основное внимание уделено достижениям последних лет. Астероиды рассматриваются как родительские тела метеоритов — наилучших образчиков первичного вещества Солнечной системы, наименее измененных последующими процессами. Прослеживается, как...
Воронеж: ВГУ, 2006. — 114 с. Очерки результатов исследования Земли, Солнечной системы и Космоса. Методическое пособие по направлению "Геология" для студентов геологических факультетов Университетов. Сравнительная планетология или планетная геология, как и другие новые отрасли науки, возникла «на пограничной области» астрономии и геологии. Толчком к появлению науки явились успехи...
Учебное пособие. — Самара: Изд-во СГАУ, 2015. — 124 с. В учебном пособии обобщены научные данные и собственные экспериментальные и теоретические результаты авторов в области построения устройств для регистрации микрометеороидов и частиц космического мусора. Рассмотрены модели высокоскоростного взаимодействия твердых тел. Приведены различные конструкции экспериментальных стендов...
М.: Знание, 1984. — 256 с. Огромные ресурсы энергии и вещества таятся в просторах Солнечной системы. О перспективах их использования человечеством, о возможных путях освоения и преобразования Солнечной системы рассказывается в этой книге. Рассмотрены основные этапы покорения космического пространства человеком - от первых искусственных спутников Земли до "эфирных городов",...
М.: Знание, 1984. — 256 с.: ил. Огромные ресурсы энергии и вещества таятся в просторах Солнечной системы. О перспективах их использования человечеством, о возможных путях освоения и преобразования Солнечной системы рассказывается а этой книге. Рассмотрены основные этапы покорения космического пространства человеком — от первых искусственных спутников Земли до «эфирных...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Мир, 1987. - 328с., ил.
В книге видного американского планетолога рассмотрены современные представления о строении планет Солнечной системы и их спутников. Автор смело сочетает достижения теории с данными наблюдений, полученными при помощи космической техники. В первых семи главах книги изложены общие вопросы физики и химии планет — термодинамика, теория...
1981. — 352 с. Книга, написанная крупным американским специалистом в области физики атмосферы, сочетает в себе особенности научной монографии и учебного пособия. В ней систематически изложены основные сведения об атмосферных процессах с учетом данных об атмосферах Марса, Венеры и Юпитера, полученных в течение последних десятилетний. Книга представляет большой интерес для...
РАН, Институт геохимии и аналитической химии им. В.И. Вернадского. — М.: Едиториал УРСС, 2004. — 336 с. — ISBN: 5-354-00345-8 В книге представлена попытка систематического изучения применения результатов математического моделирования в космохимических и планетологических исследованиях. Сформулированные подходы при разработке устойчивых самосогласованных методов математического...
София: Наука и изкуство, 1978. — 168 с. Книгата е на български език. В книгата е отделено място, както на отдавна известните данни за тези планети, така и на най-новите резултати от изследванията и наблюденията им. Описани са интересни обстоятелства около откриването на планетите Уран, Нептун и Плутон. Поради това, че тези планети са най-отдалечени от Слънцето, те имат...
Тр. Геофизического ин-та АН СССР, № 11 (138). М.-Л.: Изд-во АН СССР. 1950. - 20 с.
Изложены в сжатом и систематическом виде основные положения и выводы космогонической теории образования тел Солнечной системы (Земли и планет и их спутников) в результате конденсации околосолнечного газово-пылевого облака, разработанной О.Ю.Шмидтом и его сотрудниками.
Предложено объяснять...
Киев: Наукова думка, 1972. – 242 с.
В монографии излагается теория движения нейтрального газа в атмосферах комет. Цель монографии - дать необходимый аппарат для расчета физических условий в различных слоях нейтрально-газовой атмосферы. Рассматривается идентификация родительских молекул по наблюдаемым радикалам; переход нейтралов в атмосферу, движение газов в области, где...
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