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大卫·罗瑟里 是开放大学的行星地球科学教授，他主持了 2 级模块行星科学和寻找生命和 1 级模块火山、地震和海啸。 他在开放大学的参议院任职。 从 1999 年到 2004 年，他参与了 Colin Pillinger 领导的 Beagle2 项目。 2006 年，他被任命为 MIXS（水星成像 X 射线光谱仪）的英国首席科学家，负责欧洲航天局/JAXA 联合执行的名为 BepiColombo 的水星任务。他领导欧洲航天局的水星表面和成分工作组为 BepiColombo 做准备 该任务于 2018 年 10 月 20 日成功发射。他曾多次担任 The Sky at Night 的嘉宾，并经常在电视、广播、印刷和在线新闻报道中出现或引用有关行星科学、火山爆发、地震和海啸的报道 .

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A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun’s innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury’s landscapes from a geological perspective: from sublimation hollows, to volcanic vents, to lava plains, to giant thrust faults. He considers what its giant core, internal structure and weird composition have to tell us about the formation and evolution of a planet so close to the Sun. This is of special significance in view of the discovery of so many exoplanets in similarly close orbits about their stars. Mercury generates its own magnetic field, like the Earth (but unlike Venus, Mars and the Moon), and the interplay between Mercury’s and the Sun’s magnetic field affects many processes on its surface and in the rich and diverse exosphere of neutral and charged particles surrounding the planet. There is much about Mercury that we still don’t understand. Accessible to the amateur, but also a handy state-of-the-art digest for students and researchers, the book shows how our knowledge of Mercury developed over the past century of ground-based, fly-by and orbital observations, and looks ahead at the mysteries remaining for future missions to explore.