Astrobiology for a General Reader
This book explores astrobiology in a unique ‘Questions and Answers’ format. With over 250 questions answered in a conversation-like style, it is a comprehensive guide for general readers and students eager to delve into this fascinating field.
This volume gathers 41 Mars scientists, mission engineers and planners and medical researchers to address knowledge gaps in a wide range of areas, including the chemical, physical and electrical properties of Mars atmospheric dust and its effects on human health.
This book presents an original theory for searching for space objects when only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct efficient search plans that prevent the object’s loss and ensure an economical use of resources.
Drawing parallels to fluid dynamics, this book observes how solar wind creates vortex structures in the plasma wakes of planets and comets. These features reveal an outstanding property that could also be produced by stellar winds interacting with the ionospheres of exoplanets.
Earth’s long-term climate is driven by evolving orbital and rotational movements. This book presents a new version of the astronomical theory of climate change, solving these problems in a different way. The new results coincide with historical warming and cooling periods.
Space, Life, Science and Stories
Surges of public interest in life from the cosmos often leave people confused and exploited. This book explores the causes of these surges, the stories they generate, and the relevant science, allowing you to become aware of the facts and judge them for yourself.
The Space Economy
This volume offers a new interpretation of the space economy from an economic perspective. It focuses on the tangible returns of investments made in the space industry since the Space Race, including the development of knowledge and technologies with high industrial impacts.
Based on 13 years of empirical study, this unique book covers the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management, with a focus on human factors. It provides an overview of the technology and its uses for practitioners and researchers in the field.
This volume explores humankind’s relationship with the cosmos, a source of awe since civilization began. The first of its kind for a general audience, it introduces (C)osmosis Art, a new conceptual framework inspired by the interactions between art, science and technology.
By coupling gravitational and magnetic fields, a normally weak relativistic effect is enhanced. This outward dragging increases the rotational velocities of galaxies, presenting important implications for the missing mass problem in galactic dynamics.
This book delves into the foundations of physics and our understanding of the universe. It covers cosmology from origin myths to dark energy, focusing on the open problems and unsolved puzzles that inevitably intertwine physics, astrophysics, and philosophy.
This book reveals that fields and particles are rotational changes within an elastic medium called ‘ether’. This theory explains gravitational attraction, electromagnetism, electron spin, and nuclear reactions.
Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life
This book explores the intricate interdependence between water and ions. Water is essential for life, but not always sufficient. It pursues an answer to this mystery, showing how metal ions like iron, calcium, and carbon complement water for sustaining life.
Apollo astronauts discovered a major hazard on the Moon: fine, sharp dust that eroded spacesuits, compromised seals, and harmed their health. As humans prepare to return, this book summarizes what we know about lunar dust and how to mitigate its effects on future exploration.
This textbook explains the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Designed for undergraduates, the theory is developed from first principles, covering planetary dynamics, magnetic fields, and the fluid dynamics of circumstellar disks.
Astronomy for Cloudy Nights
Educational, humorous essays connecting astronomy to the arts—from literature to pop music. Autobiographical in places, it shares breathtaking stories of telescope observing around the world, from a childhood discovery to the high altitude of the Bolivian Andes.
This book explores the ponderomotive wave forces of space plasma and their theoretical implications. The theory offers a vital tool for analyzing plasma data from the terrestrial and Martian environments, providing a roadmap for interpreting distant stellar and galactic objects.
Inside Out
This work tackles the age-old mind-body duality, demonstrating the conflict dissolves when we realize the universe is governed by physical laws. Inspired by pop music, the author explores our ties to the cosmos and forecasts our future in time and space.
This book examines the influence of solar activity on the light trapping of insects. Using data from a huge amount of moths from multiple continents, it demonstrates that the Sun has a multifaceted effect on their flight activity—an unprecedented finding.
This book provides a graduate-level introduction to classical and quantum black holes. It details examples of integrable systems, hidden symmetries in black hole spacetime, and resolutions to the information paradox, presenting an overview of cutting-edge research.