
Mission Earth
Dirk H. Lorenzen(Author)
Ullmann Publishing
Published on 3. May 2012
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-3-8331-6087-5 (ISBN)
Description
There is no other heavenly body that is as intensely observed as Earth. Alongside the daily cloud formations used for the weather forecast, the "heavenly eyes" give us up-to-date information about earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, and floods. They monitor the pollution of the Earth's atmosphere and, with the help of state-of-the-art measurement methods, they can even look deep inside our planet. From his cosmological point of view, the author of Mission Earth discovers wholly new facets to our allegedly well-known Earth. This book describes what can be observed from outer space; shows how to measure things, how these insights can be scientifically used; and how these data are then deployed in disaster relief, climate change models, to predict the weather and earthquakes, in aviation, geophysics, and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Konigswinter
Germany
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
col. Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 312 mm
Width: 286 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-8331-6087-5 (9783833160875)
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Person
Dirk H Lorenzen, Born in 1968, is an astrophysicist and busy scientific journalist specialisting in astronomy and astronautics.