The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System

Kenneth R. Lang

452 pages, parution le 18/09/2003

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Résumé

The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the planets and their moons. Writing at an introductory level appropriate for high school and undergraduate students, Professor Lang leads the reader on a fascinating journey of exploration to the worlds beyond our home planet Earth. The book begins with a short introduction to the history of planetary observation and discovery. The major planets and their moons are then introduced by presenting common properties, processes, and themes. This is followed by chapters which focus on individual planets and other solar system objects, including a comprehensive treatment of the various space missions: from the Apollo missions to the Moon, to recent missions to Jupiter and Mars.
Filled with vital facts and information, and lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, this book will also appeal to professionals as well as general readers with an interest in planetary science.

Part I. Changing Views and Fundamental Concepts:
- 1. Evolving perspectives - a historical prologue
- 2. The new, close-up view from space
- 3. The invisible buffer zone with space - atmospheres, magnetospheres and the solar wind
Part II. The Inner System - Rocky Worlds:
- 4. Third rock from the Sun - restless Earth
- 5. The Moon: stepping stone to the planets
- 6. Mercury: a dense battered world
- 7. Venus: the veiled planet
- 8. Mars: the red planet

Part III. The Giant Planets, Their Satellites and Their Rings - Worlds of Liquid, Ice and Gas:
- 9. Jupiter: a giant primitive planet
- 10. Saturn: lord of the rings
- 11. Uranus and Neptune
Part IV. Remnants of Creation - Small Worlds in the Solar System:
- 12. Comets
- 13. Asteroids and meteorites
- 14. Colliding worlds

Appendix 1. Further reading
Appendix 2. Directory of web sites
Index.

L'auteur - Kenneth R. Lang

Professor Lang is known for his famous, widely used reference books Astrophysical Formulae I, II, published in their third edition in 1995 by Springer-Verlag. He is also a writer of prize-winning science books that have a broad readership, including amateurs, experts and the educated layperson. Some of these popular books, which include Sun, Earth and Sky, Wanderers in Space, the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun and the Cambridge Guide to the Solar System, have been translated into seven languages.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Kenneth R. Lang
Parution	18/09/2003
Nb. de pages	452
Format	22,5 x 28
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1700g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521813068
ISBN13	978-0-521-81306-8