Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System: Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces focuses on the airless, rocky bodies in the inner solar system as a host unto themselves, with a unique set of processes that require a specific set of investigative techniques. The book allows readers to understand both the basic and advanced concepts necessary to understand and employ that information. Topics covered past exploration of these surfaces, changes with time, space weathering, impact cratering, creation and evolution of regolith and soils, comparison of sample and remote sensing data, dust characterization, surface composition and thoughts for future exploration.
Together these authors represent the unique combination of skills and experience required to produce an excellent book on the subject of the surfaces of airless, rocky bodies in the solar system, which will be useful both for graduate students and for working scientists.
Key Features
- Written by experts with a unique combination of skills and experience on the subject of the surfaces of airless, rocky bodies in the solar system
- Addresses the unique nature of airless bodies not done in any other reference
- Organized into subjects that can be easily translated into classroom lecture points
- Represents topics that scientists will want to pinpoint and browse
- Cabrol, Lakes on Mars, Sep 2010, 9780444528544, 410pp, $200.00
- Spohn, Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Apr 2014, 9780124158450, 336pp, $180.00
- Kuhn, Experiments in Reduced Gravity: Sediment Settling on Mars, Sep 2014, 9780127999654, 50pp, $29.95
Graduate students interested in planetary geology, aerospace engineering, space exploration, and even science policy will need to understand the key ideas to be presented in this book. This reference will be ideal for use in graduate classrooms as well as a go-to reference for a variety of professionals interested in the topic
