Europa – The Ocean Moon Search For An Alien Biosphere
Europa – The Ocean Moon tells the story of the Galileo spacecraft probe to Jupiter's moon, Europa. It provides a detailed description of the physical processes, including the dominating tidal forces that operate on Europa, and includes a comprehensive tour of Europa using images taken by Galile...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Geophysical Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Discovering Europa
- Water World
- Touring the surface
- Politics and intellect: Converting images into ideas and knowledge
- Tides
- Tides and resonance
- Tides and rotation
- Tides and stress
- Tidal heating
- Tides and orbital evolution
- Understanding Europa
- Global cracking and non-synchronous rotation
- Building ridges
- Dilation of cracks
- Strike-slip
- Return to Astypalaea
- Cycloids
- Rotation revisited
- Chaos
- Crust convergence
- The scars of impact
- Pits and uplifts
- Life on Earth and Europa
- The bandwagon
- The biosphere
- The exploration to come