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- Serves as an engaging introduction into the exciting and rapidly expanding study of icy moons and planets, which is especially useful in light of the upcoming Europa Ice Clipper mission
- Includes information obtained from some of the world's leading authorities on the subject matter, including astrobiologists Chris McKay (NASA Ames), Ralph Lorenz (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) and Karl Mitchell (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Depicts the surfaces of icy planets and moons through the author's original, detailed, award-winning space art
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the frozen worlds beyond Mars, delving into the interior forces of migrating ice diapirs, seafloor volcanism and tidal friction, which help form the landscapes found above and biologically friendly environs buried below. It covers the latest research in the field and includes interviews with today’s foremost authorities, including astrobiologists Chris McKay (NASA Ames), Ralph Lorenz (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) and Karl Mitchell (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Original art by the author enhances the concepts explored in the text, recreating some of the most remarkable landscapes on icy planets and moons.
Authors and Affiliations
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Littleton, USA
Michael Carroll
About the author
Author/artist Michael Carroll received the AAS Division of Planetary Science’s Jonathan Eberhart Award for the best planetary science feature article of 2012, an article based on his Springer book Drifting on Alien Winds. He lectures extensively in concert with his various books, and has done invited talks at science museums, aerospace facilities, and NASA centers. His two decades as a science journalist have left him well-connected in the planetary science community. He is a Fellow of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts and has written articles and books on topics ranging from space to archaeology. His articles have appeared in Popular Science, Astronomy, Sky and Telescope, Astronomy Now (UK), and a host of children’s magazines. His twenty-some titles also include Alien Volcanoes (Johns Hopkins University Press), Space Art (Watson Guptill), The Seventh Landing (Springer 2009), and Drifting on Alien Winds (Springer 2011).His latest book—his fifth from Springer—is Springer’s Science and Fiction series novel On the Shores of Titan’s Farthest Sea (2015).
Carroll has done commissioned artwork for NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several hundred magazines throughout the world, including National Geographic, Time, Smithsonian, Astronomy, and others. One of his paintings is on the surface of Mars—in digital form—aboard the Phoenix lander. Carroll is the 2006 recipient of the Lucien Rudaux Award for lifetime achievement in the Astronomical Arts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ice Worlds of the Solar System
Book Subtitle: Their Tortured Landscapes and Biological Potential
Authors: Michael Carroll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28120-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28119-9Published: 11 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28122-9Published: 12 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28120-5Published: 23 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 166
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Planetary Sciences, Planetology, Astrobiology