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Encyclopedia of the solar system

Lucy-Ann Adams McFadden (Editor), Paul Robert Weissman (Editor), T. V. Johnson (Editor)
Provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies and how they interact. Includes the latest explorations and observations and hundreds of new color digital images and illustrations
eBook, English, ©2007
Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam, ©2007
encyclopedias
1 online resource (xx, 966 pages) : illustrations (some color)
9781849722933, 9780120885893, 9780080474984, 1849722935, 0120885891, 0080474985
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Contributors
About the editors
Foreword
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
The solar system and its place in the galaxy
The origin of the solar system
A history of solar system studies
The sun
The solar wind
Mercury
Venus: Atmosphere
Venus: surface and interior
Earth as a planet: Atmosphere and oceans
Earth as a planet: Surface and interior
The sun-earth connection
The moon
Meteorites
Near-earth objects
Mars atmosphere: History and surface interactions
Mars: Surface and interior
Mars: Landing site geology, mineralogy, and geochemistry
Main-belt asteroids
Planetary satellites
Atmospheres of the giant planets
Interiors of the giant planets
Io: The volcanic moon
Europa
Ganymede and callisto
Titan
Triton
Planetary rings
Planetary magnetospheres
Pluto
Physics and chemistry of comets
Comet populations and cometary dynamics
Kuiper belt: Dynamics
Kuiper belt objects: Physical studies
Solar system dust
X-rays in the solar system
The solar system at ultraviolet wavelengths
Infrared views of the solar system from space
The solar system at radio wavelengths
New generation ground-based optical/ infrared telescopes
Planetary radar
Remote chemical sensing using nuclear spectroscopy
Solar system dynamics: regular and chaotic motion
Planetary impacts
Planetary volcanism
Astrobiology
Planetary exploration missions
Extrasolar planets
Appendix
Glossary
Index
Includes graphical cross-reference mapper
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