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  • The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars

    Edited by Robert M. Haberle, R. Todd Clancy, François Forget, Michael D. Smith, Richard W. Zurek ...
    Series Book 18 - Cambridge Planetary Science
    Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly ... Read more

    $200.99 USD

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  • The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

    by John Edward Huth ...
    Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chasing Venus

    The Race to Measure the Heavens

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature ... Read more

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  • Lucky Planet

    Why Earth is Exceptional-and What That Means for Life in the Universe

    by David Waltham ...
    Why Earth’s life-friendly climate makes it exceptional-and what that means for the likelihood of finding intelligent extraterrestrial lifeWe have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it remains clear that Earth is exceptional. The question is: why? In Lucky Planet, astrobiologist David Waltham ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea

    A Scientific Novel

    by Michael Carroll ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human colonization on this strange world.The views from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Making Contact

    Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    by Sarah Scoles ...
    For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact.Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Exoplanet Atmospheres

    Physical Processes

    by Sara Seager ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Astrophysics
    Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes--including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes- ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Sun's Influence on Climate

    by Joanna D. Haigh, Peter Cargill ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind patterns and contributes to the formation of clouds, storms, and rainfall. The Sun’s Influence on Climate provides an unparalleled introduction to this vitally ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Lunar Code

    by Ken Ring ...
    How you can forecast the weather by the moon. Weather forecasting by the moon has been practised for thousands of years and almanacs were once a common feature of rural life, foretelling storms, floods, and droughts. Ken Ring's mathematical theory that revives the old idea about the moon influencing the weather has provoked a great deal of public interest and debate, and The Lunar Code explains ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Scientific Ballooning

    Technology and Applications of Exploration Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets

    by Nobuyuki Yajima, Naoki Izutsu, Takeshi Imamura, Toyoo Abe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons for scientific applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the engineering details and the scientific research giving rise to balloon activities going on today. Above all, the book will serve as a guidebook for young scientists and researchers seeking to become ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Noctilucent Clouds

    by Michael Gadsden, Wilfried Schröder ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    An atmospheric phenomenon is considered as 'explained' when we have succeeded in deducing it on the basis of accepted principles of physics. (H. Ertel, Methods and problems of dynamical meteorolo gy,p. l) Until recently, noctilucent clouds were regarded merely as a curious atmos pheric phenomenon, the occurrence of which aroused only limited scientific attention. However, in the last two decades ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • SCIAMACHY - Exploring the Changing Earth’s Atmosphere

    Edited by Manfred Gottwald, Heinrich Bovensmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    SCIAMACHY, the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY, is a passive sensor for exploring the Earth’s atmosphere. It is part of the payload of the European Earth Observation mission ENVISAT, launched on 1 March 2002. SCIAMACHY observes absorption spectra of molecules from the UV (214 nm) to the short-wave infrared wavelength range (2386 nm) and derives the atmospheric ... Read more

    $89.09 USD