The Century of Space Science

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The century of space science....Pages 3-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The space age and the origin of space research....Pages 25-58
Enabling technology for space transportation....Pages 59-114
The cosmic radiation....Pages 117-151
Magnetospheric physics....Pages 153-177
Barium cloud experiments in the upper atmosphere....Pages 179-187
Alkali metal cloud experiments in the upper atmosphere....Pages 189-202
Early solar space research....Pages 203-223
A history of the solar wind concept....Pages 225-255
The terrestrial planets at the dawn of the space age....Pages 257-270
The Moon before Apollo....Pages 271-275
From the ionosphere to high energy astronomy — a personal experience....Pages 277-286
Early ultraviolet spectroscopy from space....Pages 287-300
The early days of infrared space astronomy....Pages 301-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Verification of general relativity: tests in the Solar System....Pages 335-352
Verification of general relativity: strong fields and gravitational waves....Pages 353-372
The cosmological constants....Pages 373-397
 COBE , dark matter and large-scale structure in the Universe....Pages 399-421
The origin of the light elements in the early Universe....Pages 423-440
Gravitational lensing....Pages 441-469
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Clusters of galaxies....Pages 473-498
Gamma-ray bursts....Pages 499-528
Quasars....Pages 529-548
Blazars....Pages 549-560
X-ray and infrared properties of normal galaxies....Pages 561-578
The hot part of the interstellar medium....Pages 581-605
Space-borne observations of the life cycle of interstellar gas and dust....Pages 607-645
The interstellar medium of our Galaxy....Pages 647-675
Galactic cosmic rays....Pages 677-697
Stellar populations and dynamics in the Milky Way galaxy....Pages 699-719
Pulsars and isolated neutron stars....Pages 721-758
Evolutionary concepts of binaries with compact objects....Pages 759-789
White dwarf binaries....Pages 791-810
Low-mass X-ray binaries....Pages 811-822
High-mass X-ray binaries....Pages 823-837
Black-hole binaries....Pages 839-856
The formation of stars and protoplanetary disks....Pages 857-873
High-energy radiation from outer stellar atmospheres....Pages 875-894
Mass loss from stars....Pages 895-911
Planetary nebulae....Pages 913-935
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Supernovae and supernova remnants....Pages 937-960
Acceleration processes of heliospheric particle populations....Pages 963-1005
Reconnection....Pages 1007-1033
The solar interior....Pages 1035-1063
The solar atmosphere....Pages 1065-1088
The active Sun....Pages 1089-1113
The solar wind....Pages 1115-1140
The heliosphere....Pages 1141-1161
The dusty heliosphere....Pages 1163-1189
The interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium....Pages 1191-1216
Comets: coma and beyond....Pages 1217-1233
The morphology of cometary nuclei....Pages 1235-1275
The constituents of cometary nuclei....Pages 1277-1294
The Moon and terrestrial planets: geology and geophysics....Pages 1295-1323
Radiometric chronology of the Moon and Mars....Pages 1325-1376
Chemical evolution of the Moon and the terrestrial planets....Pages 1377-1403
The atmospheres of the terrestrial planets....Pages 1405-1423
Jupiter....Pages 1425-1430
The planets beyond Jupiter....Pages 1431-1450
The satellites of the outer planets....Pages 1451-1478
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Planetary and lunar magnetism....Pages 1479-1492
The magnetosphere as a plasma laboratory....Pages 1495-1528
Earth’s magnetosphere....Pages 1529-1557
Earth’s ionosphere....Pages 1559-1584
Oceanography....Pages 1585-1622
A new look at planet Earth: Satellite geodesy and geosciences....Pages 1623-1651
Chemistry and physics of the atmosphere....Pages 1653-1668
Back Matter....Pages 1669-1846