Richard Greenberg: Unmasking Europa

Cover: 9781489992994 | Unmasking Europa | The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon | Buch

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

36,25 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage

Kategorien:

Der Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache verfasst.
Die Sprache der Produktbeschreibung und Details kann in Englisch angegeben sein. Sollten Sie Verständnisprobleme haben, wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Beschreibung

Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon¿s surface, clearly displaying the spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice. Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileös mission to Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the discovery of a fantastic new world that might well harbor life.

Zusammenfassung

Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find accessible extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly displaying the spectacular crack patterns, extensive rifts and ridges, and refrozen pools of exposed water filled with rafts of displaced ice. Coverage also features firsthand accounts of Galileo's mission to Jupiter and its moons. The book tells the rough and tumble inside story of a very human enterprise in science that lead to the discovery of a fantastic new world that might well harbor life.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Water world.- Touring the surface.- Doing science.- Planetary stretch.- A closer look at tidal effects.- Global crack patterns.- Building ridges.- Mind the gap.- Strike-slip.- Convergence.- Return to Astypalaea.- Cycloids.- Chaos.- Thick vs. thin.- The scars of impact.- The bandwagon.- The biosphere.- Explorations to come.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Importe , Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	x 277 S.
ISBN-13:	9781489992994
ISBN-10:	1489992995
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Greenberg, Richard
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Greenberg
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.09.2014
Gewicht:	0,452 kg

Ähnliche Produkte