Share
Create bookmark
Guide to the Universe: Inner Planets
Do you like this document?
Notes
Please login to add notes
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cosmic Collisions: Cratering
- 3 Inner Fire: Volcanic Processes
- 4 Breaking Point: Tectonic Processes
- 5 Winds of Change: Atmospheric Processes
- 6 Rocks as Clocks: Radiometric Processes
- 7 Triple Point: Hydrologic Processes
- 8 Planetary Shield: Magnetospheric Processes
- 9 The Moon: Planetary Rosetta Stone
- 10 Mercury: Chemical Connections
- 11 Venus: Pressure Cooker
- 12 Mars: World of Dust and Wind
- 13 The Earth: Planet at Our Feet
- Appendix: Planetary Data Tables
- + Glossary
- Bibliography
- + Index
This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers the inner planetsÑMercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Thematic chapters discuss all of the many areas of astronomical research surrounding each subject, providing readers with the most up-to-date understanding of current knowledge and the ways in which it has been obtained.||Like all of the books in this series, Inner Planets is scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind. It is an excellent first step for researching the exciting scientific discoveries of the Earth and its closest neighbors.|
Your free to read time expires in minutes. After that you have to pause for an hour.
Book Details
Authors
JENNIFER PH.D. PHD and ANDREW RIVKIN
Series
Greenwood Guides to the Universe
Categories
Publishers
Publication year : 2009
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 0
