title: The Cambridge Planetary Handbook
author:  Michael E. Bakich 
description: Combining both recent knowledge and historical background about the planets of the solar system, this source will be a valuable addition to the astronomy collections of both academic and public libraries. The author also wrote <i>The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations</i> (Cambridge, 1995).
zlib_text: ASTRONOMY AND
  ASTROPHYSICS  LIBRARY
  Series Editors:
  G. B¨orner, Garching, Germany
  A. Burkert, M¨unchen, Germany
  W. B. Burton, Charlottesville, VA, USA and
  Leiden, The Netherlands
  A. Coustenis, Meudon Cedex, France
  M. A. Dopita, Canberra, Australia
  A. Eckart, K¨oln, Germany
  E. K. Grebel, Heidelberg, Germany
  B. Leibundgut, Garching, Germany
  A. Maeder, Sauverny, Switzerland
  V. Trimble, College Park, MD, and Irvine, CA, USA
  For further volumes:
  http://www.springer.com/series/848
  
  M. V´azquez
  • E. Pall´e
  • P. Monta˜n´es Rodr´ıguez
  The Earth
  as a Distant Planet
  A Rosetta Stone for the Search
  of Earth-Like Worlds
  123
  
  M. V´azquez
  Instituto de Astrof´ısica de
  Canarias, Tenerife
  Spain
  mva@iac.es
  E. Pall´e
  Instituto de Astrof´ısica de
  Canarias, Tenerife
  Spain
  epalle@iac.es
  P. Monta˜n´es Rodr´ıguez
  Instituto de Astrof´ısica de
  Canarias, Tenerife
  Spain
  pmr@iac.es
  ISSN 0941-7834
  ISBN 978-1-4419-1683-9
  e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1684-6
  DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1684-6
  Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg Lond