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A Field Guide to the Planets by The Great Courses is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Field Guide to the Planets about?
Professor Biography Course Scope Lecture 1—How the Solar System Family Is Organized Organizing the Solar System Water in the Solar System Cooling Collisions Lecture 2—Mercury, the Extreme Little Planet Orbit and Rotation Surface Features Core and Magnetic Field Structure and Composition Atmosphere Lecture 3—Venus, the Veiled Greenhouse Planet Atmosphere Greenhouse Effect Sulfuric Acid Clouds and Winds Upside-Down Rotation Surface and Interior Lecture 4—Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life Plate Tectonics Plate Tectonics and Climate Plate Tectonics and Life Lecture 5—Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Thermosphere Exosphere Magnetosphere Lecture 6—Exploring the Earth-Moon System Comparing the Moon and Earth The Moon’s Orbit and Phases Lunar Tides The Moon’s Effect on Earth’s Rotation Stability The Formation of the Moon Quiz for Lectures 1-6 Lecture 7—Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story The Apollo Program Geology of the Moon Craters Lunar Swirls Lava Channels and Tubes Water on the Moon The Interior of the Moon Lecture 8—Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground Mars’s Orbit, Rotation, and Seasons Mars’s Atmosphere Mars’s Polar Caps M
Who reads A Field Guide to the Planets?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- The Great Courses
- Publisher
- The Great Courses
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Astronomy, Astronomical Star Guides
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