Ices in the Solar-System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to Its Far Reaches

ISBN-13: 9780323993241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Richard Soare; Jean-Pierre Williams; Caitlin Ahrens

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Ices in the Solar-System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches details the evolution of ice on planetary bodies within the Solar System, including terrestrial planets and the Moon, Ceres and other dwarf planets or volatile asteroids, icy Galilean and Saturnian satellites, Triton and disparate Uranian moons, and Pluto, other Kuyper belt objects and comets. The book provides a view of different ice types throughout the Solar System, i.e., H2O, CO2, CH4, etc., that characterize icy processes on disparate bodies. Ice and icy processes at micro through macro scales are discussed. The book geographically spans the major planetary bodies of the Solar System, covering surface and subsurface geologies, geophysics and geochemistry of ices to answer questions such as the nature and extent of water ice and different frozen volatile species, how do ices give us clues to interiors and oceans, and more.

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Introduction Prologue I: The Solar System's ices and their origin Prologue II: The Ice Frontier for Science in the Upcoming Decades: A strategy for Solar System Exploration? 1: Cold-trapped ices at the poles of Mercury and the Moon 2: Glacial and periglacial processes on Earth 3: Mars, glacial (early) 4: Glacial deposits, remnants and landscapes on Amazonian Mars: Using setting, structure, and stratigraphy to understand ice evolution and climate history 5: Evidence, arguments and cold-climate geomorphology that favour periglacial cycling at the Martian mid-latitudes in the Late Amazonian Epoch 6: Ice exploration on Mars: whereto and when? 7: Ceres - Remnants of an ancient ocean world 8: Small icy bodies in the inner solar system 9: Icy ocean worlds in the Jupiter system 10: Titan, Enceladus and other icy moons of Saturn 11: Cryogeology of KBO Pluto and the icy satellites of Uranus and Neptune