The Planet Venus (The Planetary Exploration Series)

By Mikhail Ya Marov and David H. Grinspoon

Book Overview

Shrouded by the thick clouds of hot, dense atmosphere, the planet Venus - Earth's closest neighbour in space - remained mysterious until recent decades. Today, with data from contemporary observations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049757
• ISBN13: 9780300049756
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 1.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Venus done right. Deep math though

The planet Venus book is very good. Lots of reference information for this amateur astronomer .Its great to view Venus in a good telescope and now have a detailed book on Venus to get all the information I want. Also good history on the exploration of Venus.Pictures were good but black and white. That's OK. I bought this book as a reference book on Venus where I could go back and get information. This certainly is so. Chocked filled with facts. All you need to know. A lot of the math too deep for me NOW.. This book will give me lots of helpful information now and more if I improve my math skills. There is more than an adequate amount of reference information that I do understand. NOT a kids book or a high school level book. Some technical parts probably a second or third year college course level difficulty.Some of the math closer to masters level math. I would of preferred less math and the space to be used for even more Venus evolution theories, more atmosphere level talk, crust layer development and more greenhouse effect talk. Even as is there is enough tech talk to satisfy almost anyone. No fault of the author or translator (translation excellent). I just don't have the high level of math to fully be able to use this book. Not complaining. Glad I bought the book

Everything you wanted to know about Venus

A technical and very thorough book for those interested in the origins of Venus, its composition and why we call it our sister planet. Detailed descriptions of the Venera, Vega, Magellan and Mariner missions allow us to glimpse at the surface features, but alas, it is a very in-hospitable environment. A must have book for those interested in the second planet from the sun!

Very Good

This book has the reputation for being too technical for the layman... and it is... but in many ways that is what made this a cool book. It is certainly a much harder book to read than David Grinspoon's "Venus Revealed" (A very good book for the layman). However I found some of the technical parts of this book very facinating and it made me look up where some of the equations came from (the part on the study of the clouds, Nephelometry, was very interesting). There were other parts though were I did not even bother with the math and 'took their word for it'. I would recommend if you have not read "Venus Revealed" try that first. If Grinspoon captures your imagination then buy this one and give it a try.