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What’s Hidden Inside Planets?

bySabine Stanley

Planetary scientist Sabine Stanley travels beneath the visible surfaces of planets, moons, dwarf planets, and asteroids to explain the extreme worlds hidden inside them. Heat, pressure, metallic cores, magma oceans, buried seas, ice volcanoes, magnetic fields, and valuable minerals reveal how cosmic bodies formed and continue to change. Because direct access is impossible, scientists use gravity, seismic waves, laboratory experiments, spacecraft, and mathematical models to infer their interiors. Stanley makes these methods accessible and shows why understanding what lies below is essential to explaining atmospheres, habitability, planetary evolution, and Earth itself.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781421448169