Download or read book The solar wind and its interaction with earth and comets written by Henrik Lundstedt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basics of the Solar Wind written by Nicole Meyer-Vernet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an introduction to the subject, starting with basic principles and including all the latest advances from space exploration and theory. It contains a short introduction to plasma physics and discusses the structure of the solar interior and atmosphere, the production of solar wind and its perturbations. It explains the objects of the Solar System, from dust to comets and planets, and their interaction with the solar wind. The final sections explore the astrophysical point of view. The topics are treated at various levels of difficulty both qualitatively and quantitatively. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in earth and atmospheric sciences, and astrophysics.
Download or read book The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars written by Robert M. Haberle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.
Download or read book Space Physics and Aeronomy Magnetospheres in the Solar System written by Romain Maggiolo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of current knowledge and future research directions in magnetospheric physics In the six decades since the term 'magnetosphere' was first introduced, much has been theorized and discovered about the magnetized space surrounding each of the bodies in our solar system. Each magnetosphere is unique yet behaves according to universal physical processes. Magnetospheres in the Solar System brings together contributions from experimentalists, theoreticians, and numerical modelers to present an overview of diverse magnetospheres, from the mini-magnetospheres of Mercury to the giant planetary magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Volume highlights include: Concise history of magnetospheres, basic principles, and equations Overview of the fundamental processes that govern magnetospheric physics Tools and techniques used to investigate magnetospheric processes Special focus on Earth’s magnetosphere and its dynamics Coverage of planetary magnetic fields and magnetospheres throughout the solar system Identification of future research directions in magnetospheric physics The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals. Find out more about the Space Physics and Aeronomy collection in this Q&A with the Editors in Chief
Download or read book Comet solar Wind Interaction as Viewed from the International Cometary Explorer Mission ICE and from the Earth written by J. C. Brandt and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solar and Space Physics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.
Download or read book Physics of Solar System Plasmas written by Thomas E. Cravens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the ionised gases of the solar-terrestrial environment.
Download or read book Mars Magnetism and Its Interaction with the Solar Wind written by Daniel Winterhalter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that the question of an internal magnetic field is of fundamental importance to the understanding of Mars' formation and thermal evolution, and of the evolution of Mars' atmosphere, surprisingly few of the many spacecraft sent to Mars were equipped with instrumentation for such investigations. Of the 9 or so orbiters that have successfully archived Mars orbit, even if for a short period of time, only two have returned useful data about the magnetic field and about the plasma environment near Mars: The Phobos 2 spacecraft, and more recently, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). With the discovery by MGS that Mars has large remnant magnetic field structures indicating an internal dynamo long extinct, the true nature of the past and present interaction between Mars and the solar wind comes, for the first time, into sharp focus. This work, detailing the integration and new interpretation of the MGS and Phobos results, is a primary reference for the researcher studying solar wind/planet interactions.
Download or read book The Solar Wind Interaction with Comets written by Pamela Ann Puhl-Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sun and Space Weather written by Arnold Hanslmeier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents comprehensive coverage of the Sun and space weather, two rapidly evolving topics. In this new edition, the information has been updated to include the latest results. In addition, new sections are included, like one on space weather data sources, as well as examples and information on new satellite missions.
Download or read book Solar Wind Interactions with Asteroids Surfaces written by Camilo Jaramillo Correa and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of airless bodies--particularly of asteroids--in our solar system is largely motivated by one of their most notable characteristics. The lack of an atmosphere, intrinsic weather cycles and other internal processes have led to the preservation of their general characteristics over hundreds of millions of years. They are a snapshot of the early stages of the Solar System. By studying them, we can better understand how planets, including Earth, formed. Moreover, it has been suggested that the building blocks of life were delivered to Earth from asteroids and comets. Evidence of organic molecules, including amino acids, found on asteroids could be crucial to understanding the origin of life. Asteroids also possess large reservoirs of valuable minerals. Understanding their composition and accurately determining their mineralogy could be key as space exploration furthers towards in situ resource utilization missions and resource exploitation. The interplanetary space in our Solar System is a harsh environment teeming with energetic particles, dust, and electromagnetic radiation. Airless bodies do not have an atmosphere--or their atmosphere is too thin--to absorb, reflect, and filter out particle bombardment and electromagnetic radiation. The surfaces of airless bodies are directly exposed to this harsh environment over geological timescales, which gradually alters their properties, in a process called space weathering. These changes are reflected in remote sensing data obtained from airless bodies. Understanding space weathering is important to accurately interpret data from these observations. The study of space weathering--and airless bodies in general--uses a combination of remote sensing, computer simulations, study of meteorites and telluric minerals, laboratory simulations and in limited cases, in situ analysis and sample return analysis. Laboratory-based studies are a remarkable tool that enable the use of characterization techniques that are unavailable for remote analysis. Particularly with laboratory simulations of space weathering, mineral-particle interactions can be studied. Conducting laboratory simulations is nonetheless challenging. Experiments must be carefully designed to reproduce the conditions at the surface of airless bodies with as much fidelity as possible, to produce results that can be translated to the interpretation of natural phenomena. This work focuses on the systematic design of an experimental protocol to carry out laboratory simulations of solar wind-driven space weathering. The protocol covers the sample preparation, processing and analysis. In this protocol, the samples are prepared in a glovebox and transferred to the experimental facility in a custom designed sample suitcase to prevent atmospheric contamination. There, the simulations of space weathering driven by solar wind ions are carried out by conducting ion beam irradiation the minerals, in combination with in situ sample analysis (Ultraviolet-Visible-Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy and X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy) to elucidate the influence of solar wind-like ions on the characteristics of the sample. The protocol was tested on olivine powders and the results of laboratory simulations on this mineral are presented. The experimental capabilities developed for this work were also used to perform analysis on samples from asteroid 162173 Ryugu returned by Hayabusa2. This analysis included the study of individual Ryugu grains in pristine state (no prior exposure to Earth's atmosphere) and observations of the reflectance spectra of Ryugu powders under different incidence-emission-phase geometries. The protocol developed in this work was used to collect reflectance spectra of a set of terrestrial minerals without exposing them to air. By comparing the spectra to their air-exposed counterparts, the effects of atmospheric contamination on mineral spectra were evaluated. Throughout the execution of this work, different requirements for the analysis of telluric minerals and the laboratory simulations were identified. These considerations are included in the design of a new advanced surface science facility to study the properties of materials under extreme environments.
Download or read book The Sun the Earth and Near earth Space written by John A. Eddy and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.
Download or read book Handbook on Solar Wind written by Hans E. Johannson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solar wind is a stream of charged particles -- a plasma -- ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It consists mostly of electrons and protons with energies of about 1 keV. These particles are able to escape the sun's gravity, in part because of the high temperature of the corona, but also because of high kinetic energy that particles gain through a process that is not well-understood at this time. The solar wind creates the Heliosphere, a vast bubble in the interstellar medium surrounding the solar system. Other phenomena include geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids on Earth, the aurorae such as the Northern Lights, and the plasma tails of comets that always point away from the sun. This book presents the latest research in the world on this topic.
Download or read book Cosmic Winds and the Heliosphere written by Jack Randolph Jokipii and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors examine the physics of wind origin and physical phenomena in winds, including heliospheric shocks, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and kinetic phenomena--and their interactions with surrounding media. Contributions range from studies of the interstellar cloud surrounding the solar system to solar wind interaction with comets.
Download or read book The Solar Wind and the Earth written by Syun-Ichi Akasofu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-08-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a star, the sun is continuously emitting an enormous amount of energy 33 into space, up to as much as 3. 9 X 10 erg/ s. This energy emission consists of three modes. Almost all the energy is emitted in the form of the familiar black-body radiation, commonly called sunlight. Although the amount of energy emitted is small, the sun also emits x rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV), and UV radiations, which are absorbed above the earth's stratosphere. These constitute the second mode of solar energy, separate from the black-body radiation that penetrates the lower layers of the atmosphere. The sun has another important mode of energy emission in which the energy is carried out by charged particles. These particles have a very wide range of energies, from less than I keY to more than I GeV. Because of this wide range, it is convenient to group them into two components: particles with energies greater than 10 keY and the lower-energy particles. The former are generally referred to as solar protons or solar cosmic rays; their emission is associated with active features on the sun. Their interaction with the atmosphere is similar to that of the x ray and EUV radiation. Low-energy particles constitute plasma, a gas of equal numbers of positive and negative particles. Actually, this plasma is the outermost part of the solar atmosphere, namely the corona, which blows out continuously . For this reason, the plasma flow is called the solar wind.
Download or read book The Solar System written by Thérèse Encrenaz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.
Download or read book The Interaction of the Solar Wind with the Earth s Magnetic Field written by Gareth George John and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
