Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Asit Baran Bhattacharya Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 452 ISBN: 9783659165108
Описание
The present venture is an attempt to motivate and inspire young research workers actively engaged in the field of earth, atmosphere and planetary sciences. It would also cater to teachers, scientists and educated persons in other fields, who would find in this book a good deal of information about the possibility of extraterrestrial life taking the human civilization in the earth as a reference. In fact, keeping this purpose in mind the terrestrial lightning and transient luminous events in the earth’s environment have been elaborately presented in two chapters followed by a third chapter where Martian lightning and its global circuit has been critically discussed. It is important to note that SETI is not just a classical subject. In this field of science new advances are taking place at a tremendous pace. Its modern development depends on the new and sophisticated methods of observation and interpretation. We have attempted to give an idea of how hi-tech methods have opened up...