Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009eostr..90...95b&link_type=abstract
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 90, Issue 11, p. 95-95
Physics
Plasma Physics
Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Instruments And Techniques, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: General Or Miscellaneous, Space Plasma Physics: General Or Miscellaneous, Space Plasma Physics: Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
As those of us lucky enough to be involved in the field know, solar system physics (alternately known as solar-terrestrial physics or solar-planetary physics—call it what you will) is a highly active, exciting, and rapidly changing area of science. However, we are not always very good at communicating that excitement to the wider scientific community. This dichotomy—between the excitement of the science and the rather lackluster way in which it is too often communicated—struck me forcibly while reading the book Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment. Over the past 20 years—roughly since the start of operations of the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission to study the Sun—whole areas of our understanding of the coupled Sun/solar wind/planetary environment system have changed. With Kivelson and Russell's classic undergraduate textbook in the field, Introduction to Space Physics, having been published in 1995 (and with many graduate-level texts covering the entire field being even older), the time is ripe for a new text to provide an overview of the field. Such a book should include the gamut of recent results and outstanding questions. However, this text, Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment, is not that book.
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