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The Century of Space Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The century of space science
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    Chapter 2 The space age and the origin of space research
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    Chapter 3 Enabling technology for space transportation
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    Chapter 4 The cosmic radiation
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    Chapter 5 Magnetospheric physics
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    Chapter 6 Barium cloud experiments in the upper atmosphere
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    Chapter 7 Alkali metal cloud experiments in the upper atmosphere
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    Chapter 8 Early solar space research
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    Chapter 9 A history of the solar wind concept
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    Chapter 10 The terrestrial planets at the dawn of the space age
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    Chapter 11 The Moon before Apollo
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    Chapter 12 From the ionosphere to high energy astronomy — a personal experience
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    Chapter 13 Early ultraviolet spectroscopy from space
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    Chapter 14 The early days of infrared space astronomy
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    Chapter 15 Verification of general relativity: tests in the Solar System
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    Chapter 16 Verification of general relativity: strong fields and gravitational waves
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    Chapter 17 The cosmological constants
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    Chapter 18 COBE , dark matter and large-scale structure in the Universe
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    Chapter 19 The origin of the light elements in the early Universe
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    Chapter 20 Gravitational lensing
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    Chapter 21 Clusters of galaxies
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    Chapter 22 Gamma-ray bursts
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    Chapter 23 Quasars
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    Chapter 24 Blazars
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    Chapter 25 X-ray and infrared properties of normal galaxies
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    Chapter 26 The hot part of the interstellar medium
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    Chapter 27 Space-borne observations of the life cycle of interstellar gas and dust
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    Chapter 28 The interstellar medium of our Galaxy
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    Chapter 29 Galactic cosmic rays
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    Chapter 30 Stellar populations and dynamics in the Milky Way galaxy
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    Chapter 31 Pulsars and isolated neutron stars
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    Chapter 32 Evolutionary concepts of binaries with compact objects
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    Chapter 33 White dwarf binaries
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    Chapter 34 Low-mass X-ray binaries
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    Chapter 35 High-mass X-ray binaries
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    Chapter 36 Black-hole binaries
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    Chapter 37 The formation of stars and protoplanetary disks
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    Chapter 38 High-energy radiation from outer stellar atmospheres
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    Chapter 39 Mass loss from stars
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    Chapter 40 Planetary nebulae
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    Chapter 41 Supernovae and supernova remnants
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    Chapter 42 Acceleration processes of heliospheric particle populations
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    Chapter 43 Reconnection
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    Chapter 44 The solar interior
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    Chapter 45 The solar atmosphere
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    Chapter 46 The active Sun
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    Chapter 47 The solar wind
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    Chapter 48 The heliosphere
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    Chapter 49 The dusty heliosphere
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    Chapter 50 The interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium
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    Chapter 51 Comets: coma and beyond
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    Chapter 52 The morphology of cometary nuclei
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    Chapter 53 The constituents of cometary nuclei
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    Chapter 54 The Moon and terrestrial planets: geology and geophysics
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    Chapter 55 Radiometric chronology of the Moon and Mars
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    Chapter 56 Chemical evolution of the Moon and the terrestrial planets
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    Chapter 57 The atmospheres of the terrestrial planets
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    Chapter 58 Jupiter
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    Chapter 59 The planets beyond Jupiter
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    Chapter 60 The satellites of the outer planets
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    Chapter 61 Planetary and lunar magnetism
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    Chapter 62 The magnetosphere as a plasma laboratory
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    Chapter 63 Earth’s magnetosphere
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    Chapter 64 Earth’s ionosphere
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    Chapter 65 Oceanography
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    Chapter 66 A new look at planet Earth: Satellite geodesy and geosciences
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    Chapter 67 Chemistry and physics of the atmosphere
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Title
The Century of Space Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0320-9
ISBNs
978-0-7923-7196-0, 978-9-40-100320-9
Editors

Bleeker, Johan A. M., Geiss, Johannes, Huber, Martin C. E.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 8%
Unknown 12 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 31%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 23%
Student > Bachelor 2 15%
Student > Master 2 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 4 31%
Chemistry 2 15%
Environmental Science 1 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 8%
Other 2 15%
Unknown 2 15%