Overview
- An enlightening read for everyone interested in solar physics and space exploration
- Richly illustrated with over 150 color photos, diagrams, charts, and other visual content
- Includes nontechnical descriptions of spacecraft designs and solar instrument payloads
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- solar space observing
- solar space missions
- solar probes
- solar observatories
- solar and heliospheric observatory
- solar dynamics observatory
- STEREO space observatory
- Parker Solar Probe
- solar orbiter
- solar space instruments
- solar instrument payloads
- advanced composition explorer
- apollo telescope mount
- solar wind discovery
- solar observing missions
About this book
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.
Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with the simple observations of classical astronomy and continuing through telescopic observations to the age of nuclear physics. He shows how we discovered the Sun’s basic characteristics – its distance, size, temperature and composition – and then describes how, with evermore sophisticated instruments, we have learned about the Sun’s enormous energy output, its atmosphere and the explosive eruptions that blast clouds of magnetized gas and high-energy particles toward our world.Most of this book focuses on the Space Age, when suborbital rockets and satellites have probed every aspect of our nearby star. Each of these missions is described in detail, with summaries of their objectives, spacecraft designs, scientific payloads and results. The book also looks forward, describing forthcoming missions that will shed new light on remaining solar mysteries, notably the source of the energy that heats the outer corona to millions of degrees.
Richly illustrated with mission photos, design diagrams, and infocharts, this book is a fascinating read for anybody interested in the Sun and our attempts to unravel its secrets.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Peter Bond has written 13 books, including the award-winning “DK Guide to Space”, and has contributed to or acted as consultant / editor for many others. Peter has also written hundreds of articles on space and astronomy for British and American newspapers and magazines, as well as material for the Sunday Times “Window On The Universe” CD-ROM, the Nature-IOP “Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics” and the Philips “Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics”. He has appeared many times on TV and radio to comment on the latest astronomical discoveries and events. He was Space Science Advisor / Press Officer for the Royal Astronomical Society 1995-2007, and was a consultant and writer for the European Space Agency for many years. He also edited the prestigious "IHS Jane’s Space Systems & Industry" yearbook from 2008-2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Solar Surveyors
Book Subtitle: Observing the Sun from Space
Authors: Peter Bond
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98788-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98787-9Published: 30 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98788-6Published: 29 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 535
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 241 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics