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The Giant Planet Jupiter (Practical Astronomy Handbooks, Series Number 6)

by John H. Rogers (Author)

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Jupiter is an extraordinarily colourful and dynamic planet. Over minutes, one can watch tiny shadows cast by its moons slide over its surface; over days and weeks parades of diverse, giant swirling storms can be seen to move and evolve. It is because of this richness of visual and physical properties that Jupiter has intrigued amateur and professional astronomers and has been the goal of several space missions. This highly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive and accessible account of Jupiter and its satellites. It reviews systematic telescopic observations that have stretched over more than a hundred years, in addition to modern observations and theories, and the wealth of data from the Pioneer, Voyager and Ulysses space missions. As well as a thorough survey of the planet's atmosphere, this volume presents an up-to-date account of our present knowledge of Jupiter's satellites and magnetosphere, at a level accessible to the non-specialist. This volume provides the definitive account of Jupiter for advanced amateur astronomers, professional astronomers and planetary scientists.

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ISBN-10

0521410088
ISBN-13

978-0521410083
Publisher

Cambridge University Press
Publication date

August 25, 1995
Language

English
Dimensions

8.5 x 1 x 12 inches
Print length

428 pages
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Vishal Kasliwal

The GoTo Reference for Observational Studies of Jupiter

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023

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What a superb book! This book is easily the most comprehensive guide to observational studies of Jupiter, easily surpassing Bertrand M Peek's classic work on Jupiter. Exhaustive chapters go through Jupiter's weather system region by region. The moon's aren't overlooked either!

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NJ Tinkerer

Massive volume, a classic look at Jupiter & his moons.

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016

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Excellent (if somewhat dated) volume on Jupiter's atmosphere and major satellites, with lots of historical sketches from before the advent of current high-quality amateur and semi-professional planetary imaging. I would call this a "classic" and it does form a great background for those with more than a passing interest in the king of the Solar System.

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Jeremias Garcia

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Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2014

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A Jovian Trove! A Ticket to Jupiter!

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2004

Hats off to John Rogers. This book is like a textbook on the planet Jupiter. You could take a semester course on the planet and still not get everything that this book has to offer. Starting with early observations of the planet (17th century and following), we explore the planet's bands and belts (each one getting its own chapter!), the forjmation of spots and storms, chemistry, atmospheric speeds and dynamics, theories about what's beneath the clouds, Jupiter's ring system (discovered by Voyager), the moons (several of them getting whole chapters), on and on and on... The tone is decidedly scientific, but often in a conversational, friendly way, a tone that encourages exploring its knowledge.
My sole complaint about this tome (it's not just a book, but a tome) is its paucity of color illustrations. For as much discussion as the book offers about chemistry and color-sources in the belts, more color would be useful. All the color photos (and there a fair number, I suppose) appear in a sort of color plate appendix at the end of the book, and they're excellent, but few. Anyway, that sums up my reservations.
Besides, the book is otherwise lavishly--and I mean lavishly--illustrated, and with a huge variety of (all black-and-white) material, an important matter for a book about this subject. We get charts, grahps, photos taken in the visible spectrum, under various color filters and also various radiation filters (but reduced to two colors, as I said). Fascinating are the photo sequences which show us spots emerging and developing, merging, evolving. It's mostly in black and white, but the wonderfully fine paper stock provides for great reproduction quality. I don't think there is asingle concept or heading that goe unillustrated. Rogers (the author) employs a great wealth of astronmer's detailed (you'll be surprised) sketches of the planet, in little strip maps that sort of unroll the planet before you. And by collecting these sketches from over the centuries, he offers a longterm history of how the planet has been behaving.
Published in 1995, the book can only mention that the comet (I've forgotten its name) will hit it; the book doesn;t cover that actual event, but I can't imagine a fuller account of the planet--or of many dngle subject s period, as this book offers. A great book to poke around in, too, when you have an extra few minutes here and there.

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