Solar System Update

✍ Scribed by Volker Bothmer (auth.), Dr Philippe Blondel CGeol FGS PhD MSc, Dr John W. Mason (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, the first in a series of forthcoming volumes, consists of topical and timely reviews of a number of carefully selected topics in solar systemn science. Contributions, in form of up-to-date reviews, are mainly aimed at professional astronomers and planetary scientists wishing to inform themselves about progress in fields closely related to their own field of expertise.

✦ Table of Contents

The Solar Atmosphere and Space Weather....Pages 1-53
Mercury....Pages 55-85
The Atmosphere of Venus: Current Knowledge and Future Investigations....Pages 87-110
Moon’s Origin And Evolution: Alternatives and Implications....Pages 111-134
Evidence for Climate Change on Mars....Pages 135-158
The Habitability of Mars: Past and Present....Pages 159-175
Jupiter-sized Planets in the Solar System and Elsewhere....Pages 177-196
The Icy Moons of Jupiter....Pages 197-216
Cassini at Saturn: The First Results....Pages 217-249
The Ice Giant Systems of Uranus and Neptune....Pages 251-265
The Solar System Beyond The Planets....Pages 267-293
The Nature of Comets....Pages 295-316

✦ Subjects

Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Geophysics/Geodesy