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  • Nanodust in the Solar System: Discoveries and Interpretations

    Edited by Ingrid Mann, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Andrzej Czechowski ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Nanodust and nanometer-sized structures are important components of many objects in space. Nanodust is observed in evolved stars, young stellar objects, protoplanetary disks, and dust debris disks. Within the solar system, nanodust is observed with in-situ experiments from spacecraft. Nanometer-sized substructures are found in the collected cometary and interplanetary dust particles and in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Liberty Bell 7

    The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom

    by Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (‘Gus ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Religions and Extraterrestrial Life

    How Will We Deal With It?

    by David A. Weintraub ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered clear evidence of life beyond the Earth. Such a discovery of extraterrestrial life will change ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Alien Seas

    Oceans in Space

    Edited by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the clouds of Venus to features on the Moon's surface given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms." With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft exploration these ancient concepts of planetary seas have, for the most part, evaporated. But they have been ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Spacecraft Operations

    Edited by Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book describes the basic concepts of spaceflight operations, for both, human and unmanned missions. The basic subsystems of a space vehicle are explained in dedicated chapters, the relationship of spacecraft design and the very unique space environment are laid out. Flight dynamics are taught as well as ground segment requirements. Mission operations are divided into preparation including ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Unforgotten Sisters

    Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel

    by Gabriella Bernardi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. Each of the presented biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which sets the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Why Does It Happen?: Planets, Outer Space and the Atmosphere

    Planets Book for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 3 - Why Does It Happen
    Learning does not only happen in school, it happens anywhere too! This picture book is amazingly effective at breaking down complex facts pertaining to the outer space, and then presenting them in pieces that are easy to understand. Because the images are brilliantly colored, it's easy for kids to choose this book as his/her favorite. Be sure to grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Astromineralogy

    Edited by Thomas Henning ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    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 of minerals by the Infrared Space Observatory. The first edition of this book, published in 2003, was the first comprehensive and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Remote Sensing

    by Siamak Khorram, Frank H. Koch, Cynthia F. van der Wiele, Stacy A.C. Nelson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Remote Sensing provides information on how remote sensing relates to the natural resources inventory, management, and monitoring, as well as environmental concerns. It explains the role of this new technology in current global challenges. "Remote Sensing" will discuss remotely sensed data application payloads and platforms, along with the methodologies involving image processing techniques as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Science of Solar System Ices

    Edited by Murthy S. Gudipati, Julie Castillo-Rogez ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The role of laboratory research and simulations in advancing our understanding of solar system ices (including satellites, KBOs, comets, and giant planets) is becoming increasingly important. Understanding ice surface radiation processing, particle and radiation penetration depths, surface and subsurface chemistry, morphology, phases, density, conductivity, etc., are only a few examples of the ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Australia's Little Space Travellers

    The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia

    by Don McColl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world’s finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Amazing Unity of the Universe

    And Its Origin in the Big Bang

    by Edward van den Heuvel ...
    Series series Astronomers' Universe
    In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the Universe is expanding, leading to the picture of the Big Bang. He then explains how astronomers ... Read more

    $44.99 USD