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.
1. Ices in the Solar System - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. v 6. Table of Contents - p. v 7. Contributors - p. xiii 8. Ice song - p. xvii 9. The Solar System’s ices and their origin - p. xix 10. The ice frontier for science in the upcoming decades: A strategy for Solar System exploration? - p. xxvii 11. Chapter 1 Cold-trapped ices at the poles of Mercury and the Moon - p. 1 12. Chapter 2 Glaciation and glacigenic geomorphology on Earth in the Quaternary Period - p. 31 13. Chapter 3 Ice on Noachian and Hesperian Mars: Atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes - p. 73 14. Chapter 4 Glacial deposits, remnants, and landscapes on Amazonian Mars: Using setting, structure, and stratigraphy to understand ice evolution and climate history - p. 101 15. Chapter 5 Evidence, arguments, and cold-climate geomorphology that favour periglacial cycling at the Martian mid-to-high latitudes in the Late Amazonian Epoch - p. 143 16. Chapter 6 Ice Exploration on Mars: Whereto and when? - p. 193 17. Chapter 7 Ceres—A volatile-rich dwarf planet in the asteroid belt - p. 221 18. Chapter 8 Small icy bodies in the inner Solar System - p. 261 19. Chapter 9 Jupiter’s ocean worlds: Dynamic ices and the search for life - p. 283 20. Chapter 10 Titan, Enceladus, and other icy moons of Saturn - p. 315 21. Chapter 11 Geocryology of Pluto and the icy moons of Uranus and Neptune - p. 357 22. Index - p. 377
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.
1. Ices in the Solar System - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. v 6. Table of Contents - p. v 7. Contributors - p. xiii 8. Ice song - p. xvii 9. The Solar System’s ices and their origin - p. xix 10. The ice frontier for science in the upcoming decades: A strategy for Solar System exploration? - p. xxvii 11. Chapter 1 Cold-trapped ices at the poles of Mercury and the Moon - p. 1 12. Chapter 2 Glaciation and glacigenic geomorphology on Earth in the Quaternary Period - p. 31 13. Chapter 3 Ice on Noachian and Hesperian Mars: Atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes - p. 73 14. Chapter 4 Glacial deposits, remnants, and landscapes on Amazonian Mars: Using setting, structure, and stratigraphy to understand ice evolution and climate history - p. 101 15. Chapter 5 Evidence, arguments, and cold-climate geomorphology that favour periglacial cycling at the Martian mid-to-high latitudes in the Late Amazonian Epoch - p. 143 16. Chapter 6 Ice Exploration on Mars: Whereto and when? - p. 193 17. Chapter 7 Ceres—A volatile-rich dwarf planet in the asteroid belt - p. 221 18. Chapter 8 Small icy bodies in the inner Solar System - p. 261 19. Chapter 9 Jupiter’s ocean worlds: Dynamic ices and the search for life - p. 283 20. Chapter 10 Titan, Enceladus, and other icy moons of Saturn - p. 315 21. Chapter 11 Geocryology of Pluto and the icy moons of Uranus and Neptune - p. 357 22. Index - p. 377
