Planet Mercury From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World /

• Main Author: Rothery, David A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun’s innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury’s landscapes from a geological perspective: from sublimati...

Table of Contents:

• A Pale Pink Dot
• Mariner 10
• High time for another mission?
• The surface as seen by MESSENGER
• Magnetosphere and exosphere as seen by MESSENGER
• More questions than answers?
• Appendix.