Voyage to Jupiter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478221142)

The two Voyager encounters with Jupiter were periods unparalleled in degree and diversity of discovery. We had, or course, expected a number of discoveries because we had never before been able to study in detail the atmospheric motions on a planet that is a giant spinning sphere of hydrogen and helium, nor had we ever observed planet-sized objects such as the Jovian satellites Ganymedes and Callisto, which are half water-ice. We had never been so close to a Moon-sized satellite such as lo, which was known to be dispersing sodium throughout its Jovian neighborhood and was thought to be generating a one-million-ampere electrical current that in some way results in billions of watts of radio emission from Jupiter.

Author: Jane Samz, David Morrison
ISBN-10: 1478221143
ISBN-13: 9781478221142
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2012
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.45d