Terraforming

• Verfasst von: Beech, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Terraforming
• Titelzusatz: the creating of habitable worlds
• Verf.angabe: Martin Beech
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Springer
• E-Jahr: 2009
• Jahr: [2009]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 291 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Astronomers' Universe
• ISBN: 978-0-387-09796-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Siedlung / (s)Planet
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Beech, Martin, 1959 - : Terraforming. - New York, NY : Springer, 2009. - XI, 291 S.
• RVK-Notation: WI 2010
• Sach-SW: Planetology
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1670427439
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

This fascinating book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. The book presents what is physically possible today and hints what might conceivably be put into practice in the next several hundred years.

Abstract

Astronomers' Universe -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Prolog: The Big Guns of Kugluktuk -- Summer, the Year 2100 -- Notes and References -- Introduction -- What's in a Word? -- Moving Forward -- The Anthropocene -- Future Worlds, Future Homes -- Economics -- Notes and References -- Life in the Solar System, and Beyond -- Mars: The Once and Future Abode of Life? -- Life Express -- The Miller-Urey Experiment -- Panspermia: The Bigger Picture -- Life and Death Clouds -- Vignette A: What Is Life? -- Defining Life -- The Rights of Microbes -- Notes and References -- The Limits of the World -- Home on the Range: A Brief History of the Solar System -- The Blue Marble -- Breathing Room -- A Magnetic Shield -- Humanity's Footprint -- We, the Tikopia -- The Aging Sun -- Back to the Present -- Vignette B: The Viking Landers -- Notes and References -- In the Right Place at the Right Time -- Planetary Temperatures -- Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure -- Phase Diagram of Water -- The Habitable Zone -- Atmospheric Retention -- The Greenhouse Effect -- The Tail Wagging the Dog -- Feedback Cycles and Stability -- The End of the Biosphere -- The Formation of Terrestrial Planets -- Super-Earths -- Vignette C: Kepler's Somnium -- Notes and References -- The Terraforming of Mars -- The Measure of Mars -- Whither the Water? -- The Opening Salvo -- Altered States: The Means of Terraforming Mars -- Increased CO2 Abundance -- The CO2 Runaway -- Super-Greenhouse Gases -- Albedo Change and Increased Insolation -- The Phases of New Mars -- The Times of Their Lives -- Worldhouse -- Near-Term Developments -- Vignette D: Daisy World -- Notes and References -- The Terraforming of Venus -- The Moist Greenhouse Effect -- Cloud Life -- Perelandra Remade -- Atmospheric Blow-off, Cooling, and Mining -- Roman Blinds, Spin Up, and Spin Apart -- Back to Basics.