Sun A User's Manual

Name: Sun A User's Manual
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ISBN: 9781402068805

ISBN-10: 1402068808

ISBN-13: 9781402068805

Edition: 2008

Authors: Claudio Vita-Finzi

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The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the last few centuries and millennia, and the extent to which we can predict its future impact. The Sun's rays foster the formation of Vitamin D by our bodies, but it can also promote skin cancer, cataracts, and mutations in our DNA. Besides providing the warmth and light essential to most animal and plant life, solar energy contributes substantially to global warming. Although the charged particles of the solar wind shield us from harmful cosmic rays, solar storms may damage artificial satellites and cripple communication systems and computer networks. The Sun is the…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 9/24/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 156
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English




Looking at the Sun


Sun as clock


The solar year


Sun as god


Eclipse as weapon


The Sun as astronomical object


Sunspots


Colour coding


A layered Sun


Satellites


Proxies and aliases



Inside the Sun


A new source of solar energy


The solar onion


The magnetic Sun


Other suns


Other solar systems



The Changeable Sun


The young Sun


The middle-aged Sun


Sunspots and auroras


Shortlived events



Sun and Climate


The faint young Sun


Ice ages


Climate in history


The missing link


Shifting climates



Sun and Life


Early days


Getting there


Ice and waves


Human origins



Sun and Health


Wavelengths


SAD


Skin


Bone


Eyes



Space Weather


Communications


Satellites


Power grids and pipelines


The human target


Forecasting



Solar Energy


Passive solar power


Solar heating


Photovoltaics


A modest solution


Endnotes


References


Index