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| Author(s): | J. H. Rogers |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521115308 |
| Format: | softback |
| 418pp | |
| Price: | £31.99, $58.00 |
| Review Date: | 25 August 2009 |
| Review: | This is the latest printing of The Giant Planet Jupiter, No. 6 in the Practical Astronomy Handbook series. It summarizes our knowledge of the planet Jupiter and its satellites with data from amateur and professional astronomers. It covers: observations of Jupiter from the Earth and from the Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo space missions; the visible structure of the atmosphere; the observational record of the atmosphere; the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere; the electromagnetic environment; and the satellites Io, Europa, Ganymede etc. |