Planetary Geoscience

by Devon M. Burr, Joshua P Emery, Linda C Kah, et al.

For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial materials have given us a new understanding of planets and how they are shaped by geological processes. Based on a course taught at the University of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107145384
• ISBN13: 9781107145382
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 10.8"