The Van Allen Probes Mission (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Documents the science, the mission, the spacecraft and the instrumentation on a unique NASA mission to study the Earth s dynamic, dangerous and fascinating Van Allen radiation belts that surround the planet

This collection of articles provides broad and detailed information about NASA s Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) twin-spacecraft Earth-orbiting mission. The mission has the objective of achieving predictive understanding of the dynamic, intense, energetic, dangerous, and presently unpredictable belts of energetic particles that are magnetically trapped in Earth s space environment above the atmosphere. It documents the science of the radiation belts and the societal benefits of achieving predictive understanding. Detailed information is provided about the Van Allen Probes mission design, the spacecraft, the science investigations, and the onboard instrumentation that must all work together to make unprecedented measurements within a most unforgiving environment, the core of Earth s most intense radiation regions.

This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers active in space science, solar-terrestrial interactions and studies of the upper atmosphere.Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol. 179/1-4, 2013."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Nicola Fox • James L. Burch
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	647
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4899-7432-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > Plasma physics Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
LSN:	1-4899-7432-6
Barcode:	9781489974327

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