The Van Allen Probes Mission
Nicola Fox (Ed.)
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Hardback. "Previously published in Space science reviews, volume 179, issues 1-4, 2013." Editor(s): Fox, Nicola; Burch, James L. Num Pages: 654 pages, 70 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 80 black & white tables, 3 colour. BIC Classification: PHFP; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Documents the science, the mission, the spacecraft and the instrumentation on a unique NASA mission to study the Earth's dynamic, dangerous and fascinating Van Allen radiation belts that surround the planet This collection of articles provides broad and detailed information about NASA's Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) twin-spacecraft Earth-orbiting mission. The mission has the objective of achieving predictive understanding of the dynamic, intense, energetic, dangerous, and presently unpredictable belts of energetic particles that are magnetically trapped in Earth's space environment above the atmosphere. It documents the science of the radiation belts and the ... Read more
Documents the science, the mission, the spacecraft and the instrumentation on a unique NASA mission to study the Earth's dynamic, dangerous and fascinating Van Allen radiation belts that surround the planet This collection of articles provides broad and detailed information about NASA's Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) twin-spacecraft Earth-orbiting mission. The mission has the objective of achieving predictive understanding of the dynamic, intense, energetic, dangerous, and presently unpredictable belts of energetic particles that are magnetically trapped in Earth's space environment above the atmosphere. It documents the science of the radiation belts and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1139g
Number of Pages
647
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489974327
SKU
V9781489974327
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About Nicola Fox (Ed.)
Dr. Nicola J. Fox is Assistant Group Supervisor of the Space Physics Group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She is Project Scientist for NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission to be launched toward the Sun in 2018, and Deputy Project Scientist for NASA's Van Allen Probes mission, launched in August of 2012 and the subject of this ... Read more
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