Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon [Hardcover]

Water World.- Touring the Surface.- Doing Science.- Planetary Stretch.- A Closer Look at Tidal Effects.- Global Crack Patterns.- Building Ridges.- Mind the Gap.- Strike-Slip.- Convergence.- Return to Astypalaea.- Cycloids.- Chaos.- Thick vs. Thin.- The Scars of Impact.- The Bandwagon.- The Biosphere.- Explorations to Come.

From the reviews:

Unmasking Europa & brings you face to face with the surface scars of this tiny Jovian moon and tells the story of how our scientific understanding of this enigmatic world has developed. & Through clear descriptions of unfamiliar terms, usefully annotated diagrams, and beautiful colour plates, the story of Europa is made accessible to anyone, even without a prior knowledge of planetary science. (Emily Baldwin, The Observatory, Vol. 129 (1210), June, 2009)

The icy crust of Jupiters moon Europa, cut by dramatic faults and other irregularities, caps a hidden ocean about 100 kilometers deep. Greenberg (planetary sciences, Univ. of Arizona) believes the crust is relatively thin & . his explanations of how tides influenced the Europan crust are generally elegant and interesting. The book includes a few Web sites with images of Europa. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, two-year technical program students, and general readers. (B. M. Simonson, Choice, Vol. 46 (8), April, 2009)

The book is a very clear and accessible exposition of the Europa observations, and of how movements of the ice crust could have produced them. & the author is gratified that his thin-ice model of Europa is now gaining credence, which may well indicate, as he believes, that correct arguments must ultimately win over the scientific community. & this book can be recommended as a good non-technical synopsis of our present understanding of the satellite & . (Journal of the British Astronomical Association, April, 2009)

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