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  • Scientific Ballooning

    Technology and Applications of Exploration Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets

    by Nobuyuki Yajima, Naoki Izutsu, Takeshi Imamura, Toyoo Abe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons for scientific applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the engineering details and the scientific research giving rise to balloon activities going on today. Above all, the book will serve as a guidebook for young scientists and researchers seeking to become ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • How to Build a Habitable Planet

    The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Charles H. Langmuir, Wallace Broecker ...
    A classic introduction to the story of Earth's origin and evolution—revised and expanded for the twenty-first centurySince its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea

    A Scientific Novel

    by Michael Carroll ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world.The views from ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

    Edited by Maxim Khodachenko, Helmut Lammer ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early Venus, Earth and Mars, evolved during the host star’s active early phase. The book presents an analysis of findings from Hubble ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution

    With Special Reference to Large Precambrian and Australian impacts

    by Andrew Y. Glikson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of Western Australia and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

    by Martin Beech ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The word ‘‘terraforming’’ conjures up many exotic images and p- hapsevenwildemotions,butatitscoreitencapsulatestheideathat worldscanbechangedbydirecthumanaction.Theultimateaimof terraforming is to alter a hostile planetary environment into one that is Earth-like, and eventually upon the surface of the new and vibrant world that you or I could walk freely about and explore. It is not entirely clear ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments

    Volume 2

    by Erdal Yiğit ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The SpringerBriefs on Atmospheric and Space Sciences in two volumes presents a concise and interdisciplinary introduction to the basic theory, observation & modeling of atmospheric and ionospheric coupling processes on Earth. The goal is to contribute toward bridging the gap between meteorology, aeronomy, and planetary science. In addition recent progress in several related research topics, such ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets

    Edited by Conor Nixon, Christian Muller, François Raulin, J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    “The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets” presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current knowledge on this topic.Several papers in this book discuss the key role of nitrogen in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. The earliest setting and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Climate

    Variability and Trends

    Edited by Hans-Jürgen Bolle ...
    Series series Regional Climate Studies
    Mohamed Larbi Selassi Deputy Director of the National Meteorology, Morocco Welcome address (translated from French) WMO, WCRP, Medias-France and scientific institutions representatives, ladies and gentlemen, to thank WMO and MEDIAS-France, who have honoured us by I want first organizing the two workshops, climate indices in Africa and data assessment for global change research in the Mediterranean ... Read more

    $49.99 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

  • Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances

    Edited by Shuanggen Jin, Nader Haghighipour, Wing-Huen Ip ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earth’s gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere and astrobiology, Comet ionosphere, exoplanetary atmospheres and planet formation in binaries. By ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Atmosphere and Ionosphere

    Elementary Processes, Monitoring, and Ball Lightning

    Edited by Vladimir L. Bychkov, Russian Academy of Sciences ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a collection of reviews prepared for the conference “Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety,” held in Kaliningrad, Russia, in July 2012. It provides the reader insight into the current developments in the following fields: physics of elementary processes; ionosphere dynamics; ball lightning and aerosol structures; as well as remote detection of the radioactive and highly toxic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD