Modern Mysteries of the Moon What We Still Don’t Know About Our Lunar Companion

Modern Mysteries of the Moon What We Still Don’t Know About Our Lunar Companion / by Vincent S. Foster.

There are still many questions that remain about the Moon. From concentric craters to lunar swirls, water vapor and lunar reverberations on impact, Foster collects it all for a fascinating tour that will illuminate the backyard observer's understanding of this easily viewed, yet also imperfectl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, Vincent S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Astronomers' Universe,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Astronomy.
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy—Observations.
Space sciences.
Planetology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Donut Craters
  • Lunar Transient Phenomena
  • A Hollow Moon?
  • The Big Splat
  • Problems with Plato
  • A Dry World?- Lunar Graffiti
  • Lumpy Gravity
  • Surprising Radioactivity
  • Paved with Glass
  • Tale of a Tail
  • Volcanoes
  • Moonquakes
  • Disappearing Magnetic Field
  • Two Faced
  • Aristarchus Plateau
  • Lunar Atmosphere
  • Earth’s Second Moon
  • Laplace’s Puzzle
  • Future missions to the Moon
  • A Younger Moon
  • The Key to Colonizing the Moon
  • Unlocking the Door to Lunar Mining
  • Trouble with Tourism
  • Secret to Nuke the Moon
  • Index.

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