The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space: A Guide to the Sun-Earth System by...

Description: The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space: A Guide to the Sun-Earth System by John A. Eddy (2009, Hardcover W/ Dust Jacket). The Sun, The Earth, and Near-Earth Space is meant as a non-technical introduction, or primer, for those with an interest in knowing more about the totally different and highly hazardous world that lies just outside our door in near-Earth space: a largely unseen world governed by unfamiliar laws of physics and ruled by the iron hand of the often moody star we call our Sun. About what fills the space- long thought to be still and empty- between our Earth and the Sun. And many ways in which the closely-entwined Sun-Earth system now affects much of what we do in our everyday lives. It is not aimed at research scientist but at educators and students, at engineers and managers and administrators with responsibilities in activities related to exploration and utilization of near-Earth space, and at the reading public who take interest in the wider world in which our small green planet is wholly immersed. With this in mind, the author, John A. Eddy, has written it in a non-mathematical way, often told in narrative form and embroidered here and there with allusions to things historical, literary, and humanistic. It is at the same time organized in the manner of a practical, reference handbook made up of topically-arranged, color-coded sections and subsections which can be read and understood on their own, and with an extensive index and able of contents. The technical words defined in the glossary are printed in blue where they first appear in the text and sometimes again where they recur in a different section of the book.

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