Basics of the Solar Wind
Title | Basics of the Solar Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Meyer-Vernet |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2007-01-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1139461559 |
The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an introduction to the subject, starting with basic principles and including all the latest advances from space exploration and theory. It contains a short introduction to plasma physics and discusses the structure of the solar interior and atmosphere, the production of solar wind and its perturbations. It explains the objects of the Solar System, from dust to comets and planets, and their interaction with the solar wind. The final sections explore the astrophysical point of view. The topics are treated at various levels of difficulty both qualitatively and quantitatively. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in earth and atmospheric sciences, and astrophysics.
Introduction to the Solar Wind
Title | Introduction to the Solar Wind PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Brandt |
Publisher | W.H. Freeman |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 1970-01-01 |
Genre | Astrophysique |
ISBN | 9780716703280 |
For upper-division undergraduate and first-year graduate students.
Solar Wind
Title | Solar Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jones |
Publisher | Avery Publishing Group |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Graphic arts |
ISBN | 9780905895550 |
Coronal Expansion and Solar Wind
Title | Coronal Expansion and Solar Wind PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Hundhausen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3642654142 |
Little more than ten years have passed since spaceprobe-borne instruments con clusively demonstrated the existence of the solar wind. These observations con firmed the basic validity of a theoretical model, first proposed by E. N. Parker, predicting a continuous, rapid expansion of the solar corona. The subsequent decade has seen a tremendous growth in both the breadth and sophistication of solar wind observations; the properties of the interplanetary plasma near the orbit of the earth are now known in great detail. The theory of the coronal ex pansion has also been highly refilled both in the sense of including additional physical processes, and of treating more realistic (time-dependent and non spheri cally-symmetric) coronal boundary conditions. The present volume is an attempt to synthesize the solar wind observations and coronal expansion models from this decade of rapid development. The ultimate goal is, of course, the interpretation of observed solar wind phenomena as the effects of basic physical processes occurring in the coronal and interplanetary plasma and as the natural manifestations of solar properties and structures. This approach implies an emphasis upon the "large-scale" features revealed by the observations. It requires extensive use of the concepts and methods of fluid mechanics.
The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars
Title | The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Haberle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2017-06-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 110817938X |
Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.
Solar and Space Physics
Title | Solar and Space Physics PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309313953 |
In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.
Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
Title | Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2004-11-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309091861 |
This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the critical role played by the local interstellar medium (LISM) and to identify directions for the further exploration of this challenging environment.