Author: Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Planetary Geophysics and Geochemistry Planetary Materials Research Projects
Author: Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Directory of Research Projects
Author: Tamara DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geochemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Research in Planetary Materials and Geochemistry
Author: Planetary geoscience
Author: McSween, Jr (Harry Y.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316535769
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial materials have given us a new understanding of planets and how they are shaped by geological processes. Based on a course taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this is the first textbook to focus on geologic processes, adopting a comparative approach that demonstrates the similarities and differences between planets, and the reasons for these. Profusely illustrated, and with a wealth of pedagogical features, this book provides an ideal capstone course for geoscience majors - bringing together aspects of mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, volcanology, sedimentology, geomorphology, tectonics, geophysics and remote sensing.
Planetary Geology
Author: Angelo Pio RossiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331965179X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparative description of processes acting on them. Planetary research today is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor with efforts coming from engineering and natural sciences. Key focal areas of study are the solid surfaces found in our Solar System. Some have a direct interaction with the interplanetary medium and others have dynamic atmospheres. In any of those cases, the geological records of those surfaces (and sub-surfaces) are key to understanding the Solar System as a whole: its evolution and the planetary perspective of our own planet. This book has a modular structure and is divided into 4 sections comprising 15 chapters in total. Each section builds upon the previous one but is also self-standing. The sections are: Methods and tools Processes and Sources Integration and Geological Syntheses Frontiers The latter covers the far-reaching broad topics of exobiology, early life, extreme environments and planetary resources, all areas where major advancements are expected in the forthcoming decades and both key to human exploration of the Solar System. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate students in geoscience-related topics with no specific planetary science knowledge; undergraduates in other natural science domains (e.g. physics, astronomy, biology or chemistry); graduates in engineering and space systems design who want to complement their knowledge in planetary science. The authors’ backgrounds span a broad range of topics and disciplines: rooted in Earth geoscience, their expertise covers remote sensing and cartography, field mapping, impact cratering, volcanology and tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy exobiology and life in extreme environments, planetary resources and mining. Several generations of planetary scientists are cooperating to provide a modern view on a discipline developed from Earth during and through Space exploration.
Directory of Research Projects
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723033452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Abstracts of FY 93 research in the Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program are included. The annual program report is also included. Dickinson, Tamara (Editor) Unspecified Center GEOCHEMISTRY; PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS; ABSTRACTS; PLANETARY COMPOSITION; SOLAR SYSTEM...
Planetary Materials and Geochemistry, State of the Program
Author: Planetary Materials and Geochemistry (Program : U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030907133X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science identifies areas of high-priority research within the purview of the Earth Science Division of the National Science Foundation, assesses cross-disciplinary connections, and discusses the linkages between basic research and societal needs. Opportunities in Earth science have been opened up by major improvements in techniques for reading the geological record of terrestrial change, capabilities for observing active processes in the present-day Earth, and computational technologies for realistic simulations of dynamic geosystems. This book examines six specific areas in which the opportunities for basic research are especially compelling, including integrative studies of the near-surface environment (the "Critical Zone"); geobiology; Earth and planetary materials; investigations of the continents; studies of Earth's deep interior; and planetary science. It concludes with a discussion of mechanisms for exploiting these research opportunities, including EarthScope, natural laboratories, and partnerships.
Directory of Research Projects
Author: Planetary Geoscience
Author: Harry Y. McSween, JrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107145384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The ideal textbook resource to support a one-semester capstone course in planetary processes for geoscience undergraduates.