Название:  Planetary Tectonics
Автор: Thomas R. Watters and Richard A. Schultz
Издательство : Cambridge University Press
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 530
ISBN: 0521765730
Размер : 30Mb
Язык: Английский
This book describes the tectonic landforms resulting from major internal and external forces acting on the outer layers of solid bodies throughout the Solar System. It presents a detailed survey of tectonic structures at a range of length scales found on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the outer planet satellites, and asteroids. A diverse range of models for the sources of tectonic stresses acting on silicate and icy crusts is outlined, comparing processes acting throughout the Solar System. Rheological and mechanica ... Читать дальше »

                  

Название:  Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics: The Statistics of Nonlinear Processes in the Universe
Автор: Markus Aschwanden
Издательство : Springer
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 420
ISBN: 3642150004
Размер : 27Mb
Язык: Английский
The concept of ‘self-organized criticality’ (SOC) has been applied to a variety of problems, ranging from population growth and traffic jams to earthquakes, landslides and forest fires. The technique is now being applied to a wide range of phenomena in astrophysics, such as planetary magnetospheres, solar flares, cataclysmic variable stars, accretion disks, black holes and gamma-ray bursts, and also to phenomena in galactic physics and cosmology. Self-organized Criticality in A ... Читать дальше »

                   

Название:  A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings
Автор: Harold Hill
Издательство : Cambridge University Press
Год: 1991
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 264
ISBN: 0521381134
Размер : 116  Mb
Язык: Английский
Harold Hill's book is a unique collection of drawings published for the first time in this form. The illustrations are supplemented by text often taken from observing notes at the telescope. Astronomical drawing still has an important place alongside photography in the same way that photography has not supplanted the artist in the field of botany and ornithology. Indeed, because of movements in the Earth's atmosphere, astronomical images tend to shimmer even under the best possible conditions; drawings constructed by an ... Читать дальше »