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  • Titan After Cassini-Huygens

    Edited by Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Charles Elachi, Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Anezina Solomonidou ...
    Series series COSPAR Series
    **2026 PROSE Award Finalist in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology**Titan After Cassini-Huygens is the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of our knowledge on Titan, including results and insights from the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Italian Space Agency mission Cassini-Huygens and the conclusions drawn by experts following detailed analysis of the mission data. Our knowledge ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Antarctica: Earth's Own Ice World

    by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In 2016, scientist Rosaly Lopes and artist Michael Carroll teamed up as fellows of the National Science Foundation to travel to Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano in Antarctica. The logistics of getting there and complex operations of Antarctica's McMurdo Station echo the kinds of strategies that future explorers will undertake as they set up settlements on Mars and beyond. This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Planetary Volcanism across the Solar System

    Edited by Tracy K. P. Gregg, Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Sarah A. Fagents ...
    Series Book 1 - Comparative Planetology
    Planetary Volcanism across the Solar System compares and contrasts the vast array of planetary bodies in the Solar System, including Earth. The wealth of spacecraft data for almost all major solid-surface bodies in the Solar System indicate that volcanism has been a dominant mechanism in shaping the landscapes of these bodies. The book addresses key questions surrounding our understanding of ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Volcanoes

    by Dr. Rosaly Lopes ...
    Narrated by James Adams ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    5 hours 11 min

    As one of the most fascinating and volatile forces on earth, volcanoes have long been the subject of worship, fear, and study. With the aid of famous case histories, Lopes provides a unique background to volcanoes, what they are, why they form, and how they erupt. From the Sunset Crater in Arizona and Krakatau in Indonesia, to the exotic volcanoes of the outer solar system, this guide illustrates ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Volcanoes

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Rosaly M. C. Lopes ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    As one of the most fascinating and volatile forces on earth, volcanoes have long been the subject of worship, fear, and study. With the aid of famous 'case histories' Lopes provides a unique background to volcanoes, what they are, why they form, and how they erupt. From the Sunset Crater in Arizona and Krakatau in Indonesia to the exotic volcanoes of the outer solar system this guide illustrates ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Modeling Volcanic Processes

    The Physics and Mathematics of Volcanism

    Edited by Sarah A. Fagents, Tracy K. P. Gregg, Rosaly M. C. Lopes ...
    Understanding the physical behavior of volcanoes is key to mitigating the hazards active volcanoes pose to the ever-increasing populations living nearby. The processes involved in volcanic eruptions are driven by a series of interlinked physical phenomena, and to fully understand these, volcanologists must employ various physics subdisciplines. This book provides the first advanced-level, one-stop ... Read more

    $75.49 USD

  • Io: A New View of Jupiter’s Moon

    Edited by Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Katherine de Kleer, James Tuttle Keane ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Written by expert researchers, this book covers all the major aspects of research in Jupiter's moon Io, from the interior to its space environment. Io is one of the Solar System’s most exotic satellites. The book discusses Io's interior, geology, atmosphere, and, in particular, its active volcanism, which was discovered from observations by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979, confirming a ... Read more

    $152.09 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

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    by David C. Catling, James F. Kasting ...
    As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well-known planetary scientists, this text explains the physical and chemical principles of atmospheric evolution and planetary atmospheres, in the context of how atmospheric composition and climate determine a planet's ... Read more

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  • Asteroids IV

    Edited by Patrick Michel, Francesca E. DeMeo, William F. Bottke ...
    Series series The University of Arizona Space Science Series
    Over the past decade, asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. Scientists across broad disciplines are increasingly recognizing that understanding asteroids is essential to discerning the basic processes of planetary formation, including how their current distribution bespeaks our solar system’s cataclysmic past. For explorers, the nearest asteroids beckon as the most accessible ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • The Pluto System After New Horizons

    by S. Alan Stern ...
    Series series The University of Arizona Space Science Series
    Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • Planetary Tectonics

    Edited by Thomas R. Watters, Richard A. Schultz ...
    Series Book 11 - Cambridge Planetary Science
    This book describes the tectonic landforms resulting from major internal and external forces acting on the outer layers of solid bodies throughout the Solar System. It presents a detailed survey of tectonic structures at a range of length scales found on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the outer planet satellites, and asteroids. A diverse range of models for the sources of tectonic stresses acting ... Read more

    $76.29 USD