The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Fredric W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521781833 ISBN 13 : 9780521781831

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets contains a selection of the latest and most interesting images of the planets, moons, comets and asteroids of our Solar System. The book begins with a general introduction to the planetary system, its origin and evolution. Each subsequent chapter is devoted to a different planet or solar system body, and contains a comprehensive introduction to the body, and its moons and rings where relevant. This is followed by a selection of carefully chosen images from planetary missions, with explanatory captions. The author provides an authoritative description of what these images reveal and the puzzles that they pose for scientists. This photographic guide will be of interest to anybody with a fascination of the planets, from the amateur to the professional astronomer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fred Taylor is Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. His research interests include the physics of planetary atmospheres; experimental methods for studying atmospheres; and the theory of atmospheric radiation and atmospheric molecular spectroscopy. Professor Taylor has worked with NASA or the European Space Agency on missions to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Titan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521781833
• ISBN 13: 9780521781831
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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