Overview
- Relates some of the important scientific debates that helped to develop space science in several research topics
- Covers scientific debates on the heliosphere, the Moon, asteroids and comets, and cosmic gamma rays
- With a Foreword by the former NASA Associate Administrator Thomas H. Zurbuchen, PhD
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences (ASTRONOMY)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era. The debates led to significant new understandings of the constituents and processes occurring beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and often opened new research directions. Scientific speculations with their resultant debates have played an important role in the development and furthering of research in general. The book thus has broad intellectual importance in illustrating how science advances.
The book includes debates in the subject areas of heliophysics (physics in the cosmic region that covers particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun), Earth’s moon, solar system asteroids and comets, and the origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. A final chapter describes two important and surprising early scientific discoveries that involved no debates.
The target audience for this book includes (a) active and retired space scientists, (b) space enthusiasts, and (c) students as supplemental (or even prime) reading in an introductory astronomy and/or space science course. The topics of the debates and controversies, their resolutions, and their pointing to further research and understanding of nature are of both historical and contemporary interest, appeal, and value.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Louis J. Lanzerotti is a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is retired from Alcatel Lucent Bell Laboratories. He has had a long career in space research, both ground-based and satellite-based, and has one co-authored and five coedited
volumes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scientific Debates in Space Science
Book Subtitle: Discoveries in the Early Space Era
Authors: Warren David Cummings, Louis J. Lanzerotti
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41598-2
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 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41597-5Published: 08 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41600-2Due: 26 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41598-2Published: 07 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 264
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Plasma Physics