An Introduction to Space Weather
Space weather is an emerging field of space science focused on understanding societal and technological impacts of the solar-terrestrial relationship. The Sun, which has tremendous influence on Earth’s space environment, releases vast amounts of energy in the form of electromagnetic and particle radiation that can damage or destroy satellite, navigation, communication and power distribution systems. This textbook introduces the relationship between the Sun and Earth, and shows how it impacts our
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read moreMars (DK Eyewitness Books)
Learn all about Earth’s closest neighbor in this unprecedented guide to the red planet. Including up-to-the-minute data from NASA’s ongoing explorations, this amazing resource tells the whole story – from Mars’ mystical significance in early cultures to the ambitious future plans for manned-flight explorations.
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read moreNothing in This Book Is True, but It’s Exactly How Things Are: The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars
A look at the phenomenon of sacred geometry focuses on the monuments discovered in 1976 on Mars by NASA’s Viking spacecraft, speculating on their meaning in terms of extraterrestrial life, aliens on Earth, and meditational rebirthing. Original.
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read moreMeteorites and their Parent Planets
Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field–the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth. Meteorites offer important insights into processes in stars and in interstellar regions, the birth of our solar system, the formation and evolution of planets and smaller bodies, and the origin
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read moreUniverse: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos
Embark on the most astounding of odysseys, a voyage into realms not only stranger than we can imagine but also far, far more beautiful. “Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos” leads us into a celestial panorama that extends for 130 billion trillion kilometres (80 billion trillion miles) in every direction, and allows us to explore nearly 200 of the most extraordinary astronomical views ever uncovered. Complementing these up-to-date and spectacular images are enlightening descriptions of the planets, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs, supernovae, black holes and other exotica that populate our universe.
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read moreThe Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System provides a comprehensive, funamental, and up-to-date description of the solar system. It is written in a concise, light and uniform style, without being unnecessarily weighted down with specialized materials or the variable writing of multiple authors. It is filled with vital facts and information for astronomers of all types and for anyone with a scientific interest in the Earth, our Moon, all the other planets and their satellites, and related topics s
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read moreGenesis Revisited
Modern Technology . . . or Knowledge of the Ancients? Space travel . . . Genetic engineering . . . Computer science . . . Astounding achievements as new as tomorrow. But stunning recent evidence proves that as these ultramodern advances were known to our forfathers millions of yrsterdays ago . . . as early as 3,000 years before the birth of Christ! In this remarkable companion volume to his landmark EARTH CHRONICLES series, author Zecharia Sitchin reexamines the teachings of the ancients in th
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