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Del 16 - Cambridge Planetary Science
Planetesimals
Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 932 kr
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Processes governing the evolution of planetesimals are critical to understanding how rocky planets are formed, how water is delivered to them, the origin of planetary atmospheres, how cores and magnetic dynamos develop, and ultimately, which planets have the potential to be habitable. Theoretical advances and new data from asteroid and meteorite observations, coupled with spacecraft missions such as Rosetta and Dawn, have led to major advances in this field over the last decade. This transdisciplinary volume presents an authoritative overview of the latest in our understanding of the processes of planet formation. Combining meteorite, asteroid and icy body observations with theory and modelling of accretion and orbital dynamics, this text also provides insights into the exoplanetary system and the search for habitable worlds. This is an essential reference for those interested in planetary formation, solar system dynamics, exoplanets and planetary habitability.
141 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
591 kr
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This book serves as the primary initial reference and starting point for readers to understand the background, motivation, and goals/objectives of the NASA Psyche Discovery mission to explore the large metal-rich Main Belt asteroid (16) Psyche. Chapters describe the development of the mission and its scientific goals, measurement objectives, and observational strategies; the high-fidelity instrument investigations that are being used to achieve those goals/objectives; the details of the innovative spacecraft systems and operational processes that are taking those instruments to this interesting asteroid; and the detailed design of the mission that will be carried out there.The book begins with a detailed description of the mission design, including the fascinating history of the mission’s origins and the many challenges encountered on the way to launch. The next five chapters then provide background, context, details, and plans from each of the mission’s five science-focused thematic Working Groups. Those are then followed by four chapters that describe each of the mission’s science instrument investigations in detail, and one chapter that provides detailed information about the spacecraft and its many subsystems that had to be optimized to conduct this specific mission. Finally, the collection ends with a wonderful chapter describing the mission’s novel and ambitious student and public engagement program, which plays a major role in the team’s communication and outreach to the many different stakeholders in the mission.Reprinted from Space Science Reviews, Topical Collection: The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations