Exploring the Solar Wind

Exploring the Solar Wind
Author: Marian Lazar
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2012-03-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9535103393

This book consists of a selection of original papers of the leading scientists in the fields of Space and Planetary Physics, Solar and Space Plasma Physics with important contributions to the theory, modeling and experimental techniques of the solar wind exploration. Its purpose is to provide the means for interested readers to become familiar with the current knowledge of the solar wind formation and elemental composition, the interplanetary dynamical evolution and acceleration of the charged plasma particles, and the guiding magnetic field that connects to the magnetospheric field lines and adjusts the effects of the solar wind on Earth. I am convinced that most of the research scientists actively working in these fields will find in this book many new and interesting ideas.

Exploring Our Solar System

Exploring Our Solar System
Author: Sally Ride
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Solar system
ISBN: 9780375912047

The mysteries of space are endless, but some of the most extraordinary places in the universe can be found right in our own solar system. Home to nine very different but individually fascinating planets and their moons, our solar system is a universe of wonders.

Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration

Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2004-10-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309165644

In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted new exploration goals that depend, in part, on solar physics research. These actions raised questions about how the research agenda recommended by the NRC in its 2002 report, The Sun to the Earth and Beyond, which did not reflect the new exploration goals, would be affected. As a result, NASA requested the NRC to review the role solar and space physics should play in support of the new goals. This report presents the results of that review. It considers solar and space physics both as aspects of scientific exploration and in support of enabling future exploration of the solar system. The report provides a series of recommendations about NASA's Sun-Earth Connections program to enable it to meet both of those goals.

The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars

The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars
Author: Robert M. Haberle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2017-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107016185

This volume reviews all aspects of Mars atmospheric science from the surface to space, and from now and into the past.

Exploring the Solar System

Exploring the Solar System
Author: Nicholas Booth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1995
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Exploring the Solar System chronicles more than three decades of planetary exploration, revealing the solar system in all its colourful glory. At one time, the planets and moons of our solar system were elusive and distant worlds that shimmered tantalizingly through telescope eyepieces; today they are landscapes as vivid and real as those of our own planet. Robotic explorers on missions deep into space and new techniques of image processing have provided us with remarkably realistic views of planetary surfaces and have led to the visual bounty seen in this book. More than 300 of the finest pictures from the missions of NASA - including the latest discoveries from the Hubble Space Telescope - and the space agencies of Europe, Russia and Japan show us the planets, moons, comets, and asteroids, and the mighty Sun itself.

Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium

Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2004-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309091861

This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the critical role played by the local interstellar medium (LISM) and to identify directions for the further exploration of this challenging environment.

Exploring the Solar System

Exploring the Solar System
Author: Peter Bond
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119384893

An Exciting and Authoritative Account of the Second Golden Age of Solar System Exploration Award-winning author Peter Bond provides an up-to-date, in-depth account of the sun and its family in the 2nd edition of Exploring the Solar System. This new edition brings together the discoveries and advances in scientific understanding made during the last 60 years of solar and planetary exploration, using research conducted by the world's leading geoscientists, astronomers, and physicists. Exploring the Solar System, 2nd Edition is an ideal introduction for non-science undergraduates and anyone interested in learning about our small corner of the Milky Way galaxy.

Solar and Space Physics

Solar and Space Physics
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309313953

In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.

Magnetic Fields in the Solar System

Magnetic Fields in the Solar System
Author: Hermann Lühr
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319642928

This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field. Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field. The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations.

Cosmic Magnetism,

Cosmic Magnetism,
Author: Percy Seymour
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The study of extraterrestrial magnetic fields is a relatively new one, confirmation of the existance of the first such field (that of our Sun) having come a s late as 1908. In the past 30 years a great ammount of knowledge has been accumulated on Cosmic Magnetism, which has turned out to be a truly fascinating topic for study. Percy Seymour's book is the first to deal with the topic in a non-mathematical way, and he offers a fine introduction to his subject. The first three chapters consolidate our knowledge on magnetism in general and the magnetic field of the Earth, as well as discussing the reasons for studying astronomy and cosmic magnetism in particular. The remainder of the book is devoted to the main areas of cosmic magnetism - solar, plantetary and interplanetary fields, fields in stars and pulsars, fields of the milky way and fields in other galaxies. Cosmic Magnetism in an ideal book for sixth-formers and undergraduates studying physics or astronomy and will also appeal to amateur astronomers. as previous work on this topic has been 'hidden' in specialised academic journals.