Imke de Pater (Berkeley University of California), Jack J. Lissauer

Gebundenes Buch

Planetary Sciences

Beschreibung

This updated second edition has been revised to account for the latest measurements, including results from Cassini, Kepler, and Curiosity, as well as many ground-based observatories. It is an authoritative introduction on the processes governing the motions and properties of planets for graduate students in the physical sciences.

Autor

Imke de Pater is a Professor in the departments of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and is affiliated with the Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems (DEOS) at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She began her career observing and modeling Jupiter's synchrotron radiation, followed by detailed investigations of the planet's thermal radio emission. In 1994 she led a worldwide campaign to observe the impact of comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Currently, she is exploiting adaptive optics techniques in the infrared range to obtain high angular resolution data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 197mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1616g
• ISBN-13: 9781107091610
• ISBN-10: 1107091616
• Artikelnr.: 41612430