Europa - The Ocean Moon Search For An Alien Biosphere /

Europa - The Ocean Moon tells the story of the Galileo spacecraft probe to Jupiter's moon, Europa. It provides a detailed description of the physical processes, including the dominating tidal forces that operate on Europa, and includes a comprehensive tour of Europa using images taken by Galile...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenberg, Richard (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Geophysical Sciences
Temas:
Geophysics.
Astrobiology.
Solar system.
Space Physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discovering Europa
  • Water World
  • Touring the surface
  • Politics and intellect: Converting images into ideas and knowledge
  • Tides
  • Tides and resonance
  • Tides and rotation
  • Tides and stress
  • Tidal heating
  • Tides and orbital evolution
  • Understanding Europa
  • Global cracking and non-synchronous rotation
  • Building ridges
  • Dilation of cracks
  • Strike-slip
  • Return to Astypalaea
  • Cycloids
  • Rotation revisited
  • Chaos
  • Crust convergence
  • The scars of impact
  • Pits and uplifts
  • Life on Earth and Europa
  • The bandwagon
  • The biosphere
  • The exploration to come.

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