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Mercury (Planet)

 

  • Planet mercury[electronic resource] :from pale pink dot to dynamic world /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 523.41
    書名/作者: Planet mercury : from pale pink dot to dynamic world // by David A. Rothery.
    作者: Rothery, David A.
    出版者: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xiii, 180 p. : : ill. (some col.), digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Physics.
    標題: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
    標題: Planetology.
    標題: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
    標題: Mercury (Planet)
    ISBN: 9783319121178 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9783319121161 (paper)
    內容註: A Pale Pink Dot -- Mariner 10 -- High time for another mission? -- The surface as seen by MESSENGER -- Magnetosphere and exosphere as seen by MESSENGER -- More questions than answers? -- Appendix.
    摘要、提要註: A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA's MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun's innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury's landscapes from a geological perspective: from sublimation hollows, to volcanic vents, to lava plains, to giant thrust faults. He considers what its giant core, internal structure and weird composition have to tell us about the formation and evolution of a planet so close to the Sun. This is of special significance in view of the discovery of so many exoplanets in similarly close orbits about their stars. Mercury generates its own magnetic field, like the Earth (but unlike Venus, Mars and the Moon), and the interplay between Mercury's and the Sun's magnetic field affects many processes on its surface and in the rich and diverse exosphere of neutral and charged particles surrounding the planet. There is much about Mercury that we still don't understand. Accessible to the amateur, but also a handy state-of-the-art digest for students and researchers, the book shows how our knowledge of Mercury developed over the past century of ground-based, fly-by and orbital observations, and looks ahead at the mysteries remaining for future missions to explore.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12117-8
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