Inner Solar System
The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2009
246 pages
978-1-61530-050-1 (ISBN)
Description
The planets closest to the Sun-Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars-include the world we know and its closest neighbors. However, despite our proximity, these rocky, silicate-based planets still represent so many mysteries yet to discover. Through a trove of images and a narrative bursting with detail, The Inner Solar System imparts what is known about this small corner of the Galaxy, and piques reader interest in the unknown.
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 COMPOSITION AND ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- ORBITS
- PLANETS AND THEIR MOONS
- THE INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM
- ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- THE KANT-LAPLACE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
- MODERN IDEAS
- CHAPTER 2 THE SUN
- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- ENERGY GENERATION AND TRANSPORT
- EVOLUTION
- HELIOSEISMOLOGY
- THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE
- THE CHROMOSPHERE
- THE CORONA
- SOLAR WIND
- SOLAR ACTIVITY
- SUNSPOTS
- PROMINENCES
- FLARES
- SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL EFFECTS
- HISTORY OF SOLAR OBSERVATIONS
- CHAPTER 3 MERCURY
- BASIC ASTRONOMICAL DATA
- OBSERVATIONAL CHALLENGES
- ORBITAL AND ROTATIONAL EFFECTS
- MERCURY IN TESTS OF RELATIVITY
- MARINER 10 AND MESSENGER
- THE ATMOSPHERE
- THE MAGNETIC FIELD AND MAGNETOSPHERE
- CHARACTER OF THE SURFACE
- PLAINS
- SCARPS
- SURFACE COMPOSITION
- MERCURY'S FORMATION
- LATER DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 4 VENUS
- BASIC ASTRONOMICAL DATA
- THE ATMOSPHERE
- INTERACTION WITH THE SOLAR WIND
- CHARACTER OF THE SURFACE
- SURFACE COMPOSITION
- SURFACE FEATURES
- FEATURES DUE TO TECTONIC ACTIVITY
- VOLCANIC FEATURES
- IMPACT CRATERS
- INTERIOR STRUCTURE AND GEOLOGIC EVOLUTION
- OBSERVATIONS FROM EARTH
- SPACECRAFT EXPLORATION
- CHAPTER 5 EARTH
- BASIC PLANETARY DATA
- THE ATMOSPHERE
- THE HYDROSPHERE
- THE THE OUTER SHELL
- THE INTERIOR
- THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD AND MAGNETOSPHERE
- DEVELOPMENT OF EARTH'S STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION
- ACCRETION OF THE EARLY EARTH
- EFFECTS OF PLANETESIMAL IMPACTS
- PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION
- EARTH IMPACTS
- OBJECTS THAT POSE A THREAT
- FREQUENCY OF IMPACTS
- NEO SEARCH PROGRAMS
- DETERMINING THE HAZARD POTENTIAL OF AN NEO
- DEFENDING EARTH FROM A COLLIDING OBJECT
- CHAPTER 6 THE MOON
- DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
- PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM
- MOTIONS OF THE MOON
- THE ATMOSPHERE
- THE LUNAR SURFACE
- EFFECTS OF IMPACTS AND VOLCANISM
- SMALL-SCALE FEATURES
- NOTABLE SURFACE FEATURES
- LUNAR ROCKS AND SOIL
- THE LUNAR INTERIOR
- STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION
- INTERNAL ACTIVITY OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
- ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION
- LUNAR EXPLORATION
- EARLY STUDIES
- EXPLORATION BY SPACECRAFT
- LUNAR RESOURCES
- CHAPTER 7 ECLIPSES
- PHENOMENA OBSERVED DURING ECLIPSES
- LUNAR ECLIPSE PHENOMENA
- SOLAR ECLIPSE PHENOMENA
- OCCULTATIONS
- TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS
- THE GEOMETRY OF ECLIPSES, OCCULTATIONS, AND TRANSITS
- ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
- ECLIPSES OF THE MOON
- THE FREQUENCY OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES
- CYCLES OF ECLIPSES
- PREDICTION AND CALCULATION OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES
- ECLIPSE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- SOLAR RESEARCH
- LUNAR RESEARCH
- ECLIPSES IN HISTORY
- LITERARY AND HISTORICAL REFERENCES
- USES OF ECLIPSES FOR CHRONOLOGICAL PURPOSES
- USES OF ECLIPSES FOR ASTRONOMICAL PURPOSES
- CHAPTER 8 MARS
- BASIC ASTRONOMICAL DATA
- EARLY TELESCOPIC OBSERVATIONS
- MARS AS SEEN FROM EARTH
- SURFACE FEATURES
- POLAR REGIONS
- TRANSIENT ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA
- THE ATMOSPHERE
- BASIC ATMOSPHERIC DATA
- COMPOSITION AND SURFACE PRESSURE
- ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE
- METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
- CHARACTER OF THE SURFACE
- SOUTHERN CRATERED HIGHLANDS
- SPARSELY CRATERED PLAINS
- SURFACE COMPOSITION
- VALLEYS AND LAKES
- OUTFLOW CHANNELS AND OCEANS
- VALLES MARINERIS
- THARSIS AND ELYSIUM
- POLAR SEDIMENTS, GROUND ICE, AND GLACIERS
- NOTABLE SURFACE FEATURES
- THE INTERIOR
- METEORITES FROM MARS
- MARTIAN MOONS
- PHOBOS
- DEIMOS
- SPACECRAFT EXPLORATION
- THE QUESTION OF LIFE ON MARS
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
