Origins of Magnetospheric Physics

By James A. Van Allen

Book Overview

Early in 1958, instruments on the space satellites Explorer I and Explorer III revealed the presence of radiation belts, enormous populations of energetic particles trapped in the magnetic field of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874749409
• ISBN13: 9780874749403
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.