The Cambridge guide to the solar system
Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet discoveries. This second edition of a now classic reference is brought up to date with fascinating new discoveries from 12 recent Solar System missions. E...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Changing views and fundamental concepts : Evolving perspectives: a historical prologue ; The new, close-up view from space ; Atmospheres, magnetospheres, and the solar wind
- The inner solar system: rocky worlds : Restless Earth: third rock from the Sun ; The Earth's Moon: stepping stone to the planets ; Mercury: a dense battered world ; Venus: the veiled planet ; Mars: the red planet
- The giant planets, their satellites and their rings: worlds of liquid, ice and gas : Jupiter: a giant primitive planet ; Saturn: lord of the rings ; Uranus and Neptune
- Remnants of creation: small worlds in the solar system : Asteroids and meteorites ; Colliding worlds ; Comets ; Beyond Neptune
- Origin of the solar system and extrasolar planets : Brave new worlds