Cosmic rays at Earth : researcher's reference manual and data book /
In 1912 Victor Franz Hess made the revolutionary discovery that ionizing radiation is incident upon the Earth from outer space. He showed with ground-based and balloon-borne detectors that the intensity of the radiation did not change significantly between day and night. Consequently, the sun could...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier Science Ltd.,
2001.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |