An Introduction to the Solar System
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Description
Ongoing advances in Solar System exploration continue to reveal its splendour and diversity in remarkable detail. This undergraduate-level textbook presents fascinating descriptions and colour images of the bodies in the Solar System, the processes that occur upon and within them, and their origins and evolution. It highlights important concepts and techniques in boxed summaries, while questions and exercises are embedded at appropriate points throughout the text, with full solutions provided. Written and edited by a team of practising planetary scientists,…
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Key features
- Updated to reflect current knowledge, with several new figures
- Contains boxed summaries, questions and answers throughout the text, and exercises with full solutions
- Online resources include electronic versions of figures from the book, sample assignments with suggested answers, and links to related websites
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355186
- Subjects Computational Physics,Earth and Environmental Sciences,History of Astronomy and Cosmology,Physics and Astronomy,Planetary Science and Astrobiology
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 05 March 2018
- ISBN: 9781108430845
- Dimensions (mm): 263 x 210 mm
- Weight: 1.24kg
- Contains: 328 colour illus. 96 exercises
- Page extent: 440 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 11 May 2019
- ISBN: 9781108355186
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