Earth Science, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry - General and miscellaneous, The Solar System - Astronomical Studies & Observations, Analytical Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy
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Predicted long ago to be present on the surface of planetary bodies by theoreticians and recently shown by interplanetary spacecraft and ground- based instruments to be ubiquitous in the Solar System, ices in a broad sense have become an extremely important subject in planetary research. Ices found on objects formed in the remote parts of the Solar System contain a message about the composition and mode of formation of our planetary system. There are also objects that contain icy materials that bear signatures of past events on a geological timescale. Their study is one of the best means of inquiring about the origins, accessing the past and anticipating the future of our Solar System.The reviews in this book collect together a series of papers covering the physics and chemistry of ices, as well as the geology of icy surfaces. They present an extensive summary of their chemical and physical properties relevant to planetary astronomy. They also provide an overview of planetary bodies that contain ices and the outstanding problems of the field.
Audience: The book is intended to become a reference for researchers and graduate students. It is accessible to senior graduate students with a background in planetary science.
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Booknews
Summarizes the physics and chemistry of ices on surfaces of terrestrial planets and the outer planets and their satellites, and in the primitive solar nebula and comets in our solar system, which were predicted and later observed with interplanetary spacecraft and ground-based instruments. Also discusses the geography of the surfaces and of the planetary bodies that underlie them. The 32 papers consider the thermal conductivity of solar system ices with special reference to Martian polar cap, microwave properties of ice and snow, the distribution of carbon monoxide in comet Halley, terrestrial snow studies from remote sensing in the solar spectrum and the thermal infrared, the geodynamics of icy satellites, the composition and texture of ices of Io, Pluto and the Kuiper disk, the rings of outer planets, ices in the giant planets, atmospheric ices, and other topics. Ices are characterized as moderately to highly volatile molecules when they are in the solid state either as pure solids, solid mixtures, hydrates, or clathrate hydrates. The collected is intended to serve as a reference for researchers and graduate students with a background in planetary science. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
January 31, 1998
Publisher
Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1998.
Pages
838
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780792349020