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Richard Greenberg
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Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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278 |
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2007-01-01 |
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0387479368 |
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Copernicus |
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1.15 pounds |
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6.3 x 1.14 x 9.33 inches |
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2008 |
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1 Robyn (Canada) |
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1 JustinFuller (USA: CA) |
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Product Description
A Close Look at Europa . . . And How Big Science Gets Done . . . The second-largest of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa is covered with ice, as confirmed in views from modern telescopes and the thousands of images returned by NASA's Voyager and Galieo missions. But these higher-resolution views also showed that the ice is anything but smooth. In fact, Europa's surface is covered with vast criss-crossing systems of mountain-sized ridges, jumbled regions of seemingly chaotic terrain, and patches that uggest upwellings of new surface materials from below. How scientists think about the underlying forces that shaped this incredibly complex, bizarre, and beautiful surface is the subject of this book. In Unmasking Europa, Richard Greenberg tells the stoy of how he and his team of researchers came to believe that the surface of Europa is in fact a crust so thin that it can barely hide an ocean of liquid water below. He shows how the ocean is warmed by the friction of tidal movements...
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