Planetary Geology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rossi, Angelo Pio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), van Gasselt, Stephan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences,
• Subjects: Planetology.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Geophysics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparative description of processes acting on them. Planetary research today is a strongly multidisciplinary endeavor with efforts coming from engineering an...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Geologic tools (fundamental concepts): Stratigraphy and planetary chronostratigraphy + comparative planetology approach
• Exploration Tools: remote sensing, in-situ, remote measurements in planetary exploration
• Cartography tools: geologic and geospatial mapping.