Solar System.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, David G.

Contributor:

Erickson, Richard R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Solar system.

Local Subjects:

Astronomy.

Solar system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1118 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack : Salem Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heavily illustrated and detailed, and completely up-to-date, The Solar System, Revised Edition provides an A to Z format on over 180 major topics on Earth's solar system. All essays from the previous edition have been fully expanded and revised to include additional knowledge gained from recent interplanetary missions, including the missions of Galileo, and the most recent Mars missions.

Contents:

""The Solar System (Volume 1)""; ""Publisher�s Note""; ""Contributors""; ""Editors� Introduction""; ""Contents""; ""Units of Measure""; ""Alphabetical List of Contents""; ""Category List of Contents""; ""Archaeoastronomy""; ""Asteroids""; ""Auroras""; ""Big Bang""; ""Brown Dwarfs""; ""Callisto""; ""Ceres""; ""Comet Halley""; ""Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9""; ""Comets""; ""Coordinate Systems""; ""Coronal Holes and Coronal Mass Ejections""; ""Cosmic Rays""; ""Cosmology""; ""Dwarf Planets""; ""Earth-Moon Relations""; ""Earth-Sun Relations""; ""Earth System Science""; ""Earth�s Age""

""Earth�s Atmosphere""""Earth�s Composition""; ""Earth�s Core""; ""Earth�s Core-Mantle Boundary""; ""Earth�s Crust""; ""Earth�s Crust-Mantle Boundary: The Mohorovicic Discontinuity""; ""Earth�s Differentiation""; ""Earth�s Magnetic Field:Origins""; ""Earth�s Magnetic Field:Secular Variation""; ""Earth�s Magnetic Field at Present""; ""Earth�s Magnetosphere""; ""Earth�s Mantle""; ""Earth�s Oceans""; ""Earth�s Origin""; ""Earth�s Rotation""; ""Earth�s Shape""; ""Earth�s Structure""; ""Eclipses""; ""Electromagnetic Radiation:Nonthermal Emissions""

""Electromagnetic Radiation:Thermal Emissions""""Enceladus""; ""Eris and Dysnomia""; ""Europa""; ""Extrasolar Planets""; ""Extrasolar Planets:Detection Methods""; ""Extraterrestrial Life in the Solar System""; ""Gamma-Ray Bursters""; ""Ganymede""; ""General Relativity""; ""Gravity Measurement""; ""Greenhouse Effect""; ""Habitable Zones""; ""Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram""; ""Iapetus""; ""Impact Cratering""; ""Infrared Astronomy""; ""Interplanetary Environment""; ""Interstellar Clouds and the Interstellar Medium""; ""Io""; ""Jovian Planets""; ""Jupiter�s Atmosphere""

""Jupiter�s Great Red Spot""""Jupiter�s Interior""; ""Jupiter�s Magnetic Field and Radiation Belts""; ""Jupiter�s Ring System""; ""The Solar System (Volume 2)""; ""Contents""; ""Units of Measure""; ""Alphabetical List of Contents""; ""Category List of Contents""; ""Jupiter�s Satellites""; ""Kuiper Belt""; ""Life�s Origins""; ""Lunar Craters""; ""Lunar History""; ""Lunar Interior""; ""Lunar Maria""; ""Lunar Regolith Samples""; ""Lunar Rocks""; ""Lunar Surface Experiments""; ""Main Sequence Stars""; ""Mars: Illusions and Conspiracies""; ""Mars: Possible Life""

""Mars: Surface Experiments""""Mars�s Atmosphere""; ""Mars�s Craters""; ""Mars�s Polar Caps""; ""Mars�s Satellites""; ""Mars�s Valleys""; ""Mars�s Volcanoes""; ""Mars�s Water""; ""Mercury""; ""Meteorites: Achondrites""; ""Meteorites: Carbonaceous Chondrites""; ""Meteorites: Chondrites""; ""Meteorites: Nickel-Irons""; ""Meteorites: Stony Irons""; ""Meteoroids from the Moonand Mars""; ""Meteors and Meteor Showers""; ""Milky Way""; ""Miranda""; ""Nemesis and Planet X""; ""Neptune�s Atmosphere""; ""Neptune�s Great Dark Spots""; ""Neptune�s Interior""

""Neptune�s Magnetic Field""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612277368

9781282277366

1282277367

9781587655340

1587655349