Teach Yourself Planets

David A. Rothery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2003
Teach Yourself (Verlag)
978-0-340-86760-0 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive guide to the Sun's family of planets and their moons, illustrating their surface features and explaining the processes that have shaped them. It describes the nature and origin of the solar system and looks at the internal structure, surface features and weather patterns of each planet and its major satellites.

"Teach Yourself Planets" is a comprehensive guide to the Sun's family of planets and their moons, illustrating their surface features and explaining the processes that have shaped them. Extensively illustrated, this book describes the nature and origin of the solar system; looks at the internal structure, surface features and weather patterns of each planet and its major satellites; discusses the possibilities of finding life on other planetary bodies; covers asteroids and the icy bodies beyond Pluto; and explains how to see the planets in the sky.

David A Rothery teaches geology and planetary science at the Open University, where he has been Director of Teaching for the Department of Earth Sciences since 1999. He began his research career at the Open University in 1978 when he mapped a large tract of ocean-floor rocks now exposed in the Oman mountains in Arabia. Since then, he has performed fieldwork in many parts of the globe, including North, Central and South America, Australia, Hawaii and Sicily. He has also helped to characterise the landing site for the Beagle 2 lander which is due to land on Mars at the end of 2003. His current specialisms are active volcanoes and geological processes on other planets.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2003
Reihe/Serie	Teach Yourself Science
Zusatzinfo	Colour and b/w
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 196 mm
Gewicht	287 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-340-86760-4 / 0340867604
ISBN-13	978-0-340-86760-0 / 9780340867600
Zustand	Neuware