Overview
- The first book on the latest advances in planetary exploration
- Provides detailed theory and examples, helping readers to quickly familiarize themselves with the field
- Includes chapters on next-generation planetary exploration and new exploration plans/missions, examining the new scientific questions for the future
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geophysics (SPRINGERGEOPHYS)
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About this book
This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earth’s gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere and astrobiology, Comet ionosphere, exoplanetary atmospheres and planet formation in binaries. By providing detailed theory and examples, this book helps readers to quickly familiarize themselves with the field. In addition, it offers a special section on next-generation planetary exploration, which opens a new landscape for future exploration plans and missions.
Prof. Shuanggen Jin works at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Nader Haghighipour works at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA. Prof. Wing-Huen Ip works at the National Central University, Taiwan.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances
Editors: Shuanggen Jin, Nader Haghighipour, Wing-Huen Ip
Series Title: Springer Geophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45052-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45051-2Published: 09 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51369-9Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45052-9Published: 27 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2364-9119
Series E-ISSN: 2364-9127
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 340
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 114 illustrations in colour
Topics: Planetology, Geochemistry, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics