Paul Murdin

The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System

Buch

An insider's guide to astronomy reveals everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system.We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events. For example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or that Mercury is the shyest planet? Or, that Mars's biggest v… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-64313-848-0
EAN: 9781643138480
Produktnummer: 37504911
Verlag: Pegasus Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.2 cm 295 g
Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor

Paul Murdin has worked as an astronomer in the United States, Australia, England, Scotland, and Spain, where he led the operation of the Anglo-Dutch Isaac Newton Group of telescopes. He has been a research scientist (studying supernovae, black holes, and neutron stars) and a science administrator for the British Government and the Royal Astronomical Society. He is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England. He has been honored in Britain by the Queen for his services to astronomy.