Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
What If the Earth Had Two Moons?
And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"What if?" questions stimulate people to think in new ways, to refresh old ideas, and to make new discoveries. In What If the Earth Had Two Moons, Neil Comins leads us on a fascinating ten-world journey as we explore what our planet would be like under alternative astronomical conditions....
The Five Ages of the Universe
Inside the Physics of Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
As the twentieth century closed, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin captured the attention of the world by identifying the five ages of time. In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin demonstrate that we can now understand the complete life story of the cosmos from beginning to end.
Adams...
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity
How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to...
Dense Matter in Compact Stars
A Pedagogical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
The purpose and motivation of these lectures can be summarized in the following two questions: • What is the ground state (and its properties) of dense matter? • What is the matter composition of a compact star? The two questions are, of course, strongly coupled to each other. Depending on your...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field is presented and evaluated in the context of previous work. Emphasis is placed on the integration of analytical...
Trajectory Anomalies in Interplanetary Spacecraft
A Method for Determining Accelerations Due to Thermal Emissions and New Mission Proposals
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This thesis presents fundamental work that explains two mysteries concerning the trajectory of interplanetary spacecraft. For the first problem, the so-called Pioneer anomaly, a wholly new and innovative method was developed for computing all contributions to the acceleration due to onboard thermal...
by Ganesan Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. This book...
The Substance of Spacetime
Infinity, Nothingness, and the Nature of Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Does Spacetime Exist? If spacetime does not exist, it certainly does so in a curiously conspicuous way, not at all like other geometric abstractions. Consider this mindbender: spacetime does not exist at all, but it doesn't exist in the void even more than it doesn't exist in the universe....
by Robin Biesbroek
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This book provides readers with a clear description of the types of lunar and interplanetary trajectories, and how they influence satellite-system design. The description follows an engineering rather than a mathematical approach and includes many examples of lunar trajectories, based on real missions....
by Brian McConnell, Alexander Tolley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Based on components already in existence, this manual details a reference design for an interplanetary spacecraft that is simple, durable, fully reusable and comprised mostly of water. Using such an accessible material leads to a spacecraft architecture that is radically simpler, safer and cheaper...
Asteroids
Relics of Ancient Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of? What clues do they hold about the evolution of the Solar System? Scientists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and many are thought to contain water and amino acids, the building blocks of life. Michael K. Shepard tells the fascinating...
Lunar Domes
Properties and Formation Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Lunar domes are structures of volcanic origin which are usually difficult to observe due to their low heights. The Lunar Domes Handbook is a reference work on these elusive features. It provides a collection of images for a large number of lunar domes, including telescopic images acquired with advanced...
冥王星任務：NASA新視野號與太陽系盡頭之旅
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 19, 2019
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by Max R. Schmidt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2016
¿Pudieran los datos que muestran un clarísimo descenso del brillo de Tabby ser la evidencia de la paulatina construcción de una Esfera Dyson alienígena por una civilización avanzada? ¿Una enorme estructura parte del sistema estelar diseñada para captar tanta energía como sea posible de la...