Solar System Update

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blondel, Philippe (Editor), Mason, John W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2006.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Astrophysics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

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 the...

Table of Contents:

• The Solar Atmosphere and Space Weather
• Mercury
• The Atmosphere of Venus: Current Knowledge and Future Investigations
• Moon’s Origin And Evolution: Alternatives and Implications
• Evidence for Climate Change on Mars
• The Habitability of Mars: Past and Present
• Jupiter-sized Planets in the Solar System and Elsewhere
• The Icy Moons of Jupiter
• Cassini at Saturn: The First Results
• The Ice Giant Systems of Uranus and Neptune
• The Solar System Beyond The Planets
• The Nature of Comets.