Volatiles In The Martian Crust

Author : Justin Filiberto,Susanne P. Schwenzer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128042014

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Volatiles in the Martian Crust by Justin Filiberto,Susanne P. Schwenzer Pdf

Volatiles in the Martian Crust is a vital reference for future missions - including ESA’s EXO Mars and NASA’s Mars2020 rover - looking for evidence of life on Mars and the potential for habitability and human exploration of the Martian crust. Mars science is a rapidly evolving topic with new data returned from the planet on a daily basis. The book presents chapters written by well-established experts who currently focus on the topic, providing the reader with a fresh, up-to-date and accurate view. Organized into two main sections, the first half of the book focuses on the Martian meteorites and specific volatile elements. The second half of the book explores processes and locations on the crust, including what we have learned about volatile mobility in the Martian crust. Coverage includes data from orbiter and in situ rovers and landers, geochemical and geophysical modeling, and combined data from the SNC meteorites. Presents information about the nature, relationship, and reactivity of chemical elements and compounds on Mars Explores the potential habitability of Mars Provides a comprehensive view of volatiles in the Martian crust from studies of actual samples as well as from the variety of landed missions, including the MER and Curiosity rovers Delivers a vital reference for ongoing and future missions to Mars while synthesizing large data sets and research on volatiles in the Martian atmosphere Concludes with an informative summary chapter that looks to future Mars missions and what might be learned

Author : Harry McSween, Jr,Gary Huss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108839839

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Cosmochemistry by Harry McSween, Jr,Gary Huss Pdf

Thoroughly updated to include exciting discoveries from spacecraft missions and laboratory analyses, as well as new teaching resources.

Author : Jeffrey S. Kargel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1852335688

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Mars - A Warmer, Wetter Planet by Jeffrey S. Kargel Pdf

Mars is the Solar System's other wild, wet, water world. Long believed to have become cold, dead, and dry aeons ago, we now having striking new proof, not only that Mars was a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the planet's surface. This compelling new evidence may well boost the chances of a manned mission to Mars sooner, rather than later. The discovery is also forcing a complete rethink about the mechanisms of global planetary change. What does the drastic turn of events on Mars mean for Earth's climate system? Could life have thrived on Mars very recently, and might it survive today in short-term hibernation? Will humans soon be capable of living off the natural resources that Martian hydrogeology has naturally offered us? Will humans one day be capable of setting off the same chain of events that nature has repeatedly triggered to set off warm, wet episodes on Mars? How could Mars be terraformed into a New World? (And should we even contemplate doing so?) This book offers a visually beautiful, scientifically detailed and accurate presentation of the evidence that has forced this new revolution in Mars science. From the reviews:"Long believed to have been cold, dead and dry for eons, there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the planet's surface. In this absorbing, beautifully illustrated book, Kargel describes the still-unfolding revolution in our knowledge about the Red Planet and how future concepts of Mars will continue to be molded by new revelations of four billion years of geology". (LUNAR AND PLANETARY INFORMATION BULLETIN)nbsp; From the reviews:" This exhaustive, effusive, and enthusiastic book conveys the excitement of frontline scientific research about as well as can be done. Kargel describes himself as a member of the "Tucson Mafia," a group of scientists in full rebellion against the "Mars Establishment" and its belief in a cold, dry Mars. His ideas are presented in meticulous detail, supported by hundreds of superb pictures, many taken by the author himself. Some--perhaps most--of his ideas are controversial and may ultimately prove to be wrong, as he himself often points out, but we have to applaud the (sometimes career-risking) courage with which he has pursued them. In spite of the large amount of rather technical information, the reader is swept along by the author's enthusiasm in conveying it and ability to integrate it into a coherent vision. The reader also learns about the process of science: the thrill of having a new idea and discussing it with others at conferences and cafes (and bars), the drudgery often involved in pursuing the idea, the perils of the formal review process for publications and grant applications, and the roles played by personality conflicts and power politics. Summing Up: Enthusiastically recommended. All levels. "nbsp;(T. Barker, CHOICE, March 2005)

Author : Giovanni Leone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030841034

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Mars: A Volcanic World by Giovanni Leone Pdf

This book is a comprehensive advancement about the understanding of the volcanology of Mars in all its aspects, from its primary formation to its evolution in time, from the smaller structures to the bigger structures. It discusses the implications of volcanism in the general environmental and geological context of Mars. The book is validating the Southern Giant Impact Hypothesis explaining the formation of Mars in an interdisciplinary approach, including mineralogical, geochemical, volcanological as well as geomorphological information. Implications for future explorations in terms of resources are provided. This book serves as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate level to foster new basic research in the field of planetary volcanology and is a new guide for future missions toward a volcanic world, including new detailed information for the general audience who is always keen to know more about the history of Mars and its large volcanoes. The book also presents an updated situation about the water resources of the planet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : VSP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9067640093

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Proceedings of the 27th International Geological Congress by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Soare,Susan Conway,Jean-Pierre Williams,Dorothy Oehler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128202463

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Mars Geological Enigmas by Richard Soare,Susan Conway,Jean-Pierre Williams,Dorothy Oehler Pdf

Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day presents outstanding questions on the geology of Mars and divergent viewpoints based on varying interpretations and analyses. The result is a robust and comprehensive discussion that provides opportunities for planetary scientists to develop their own opinions and ways forward. Each theme opens with an introduction that includes background on the topic and lays out questions to be addressed. Alternate perspectives are covered for each topic, including methods, observations, analyses, and in-depth discussion of the conclusions. Chapters within each theme reference each other to facilitate comparison and deeper understanding of divergent opinions. Offers a transchronological view of the geological history of Mars, addressing thematic questions from a broad temporal perspective Discusses outstanding questions on Mars from diverging perspectives Includes key questions and answers, as well as a look ahead to which puzzles remain to be solved

Author : Larry W. Esposito,Ellen R. Stofan,Thomas E. Cravens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118671702

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Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet by Larry W. Esposito,Ellen R. Stofan,Thomas E. Cravens Pdf

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 176. With the search for extra-solar planets in full gear, it has become essential to gain a more detailed understanding of the evolution of the other earth-like planets in our own solar system. Space missions to Venus, including the Soviet Veneras, Pioneer Venus, and Magellan, provided a wealth of information about this planet' enigmatic surface and atmosphere, but left many fundamental questions about its origin and evolution unanswered. This book discusses how the study of Venus will aid our understanding of terrestrial and extra-solar planet evolution, with particular reference to surface and interior processes, atmospheric circulation, chemistry, and aeronomy. Incorporating results from the recent European Venus Express mission, Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet examines the open questions and relates them to Earth and other terrestrial planets. The goal is to stimulate thinking about those broader issues as the new Venus data arrive.

Author : Kathryn E. Fishbaugh,Phillipe Lognonné,François Raulin,David J. Des Marais,Oleg Korablev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387742885

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Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets by Kathryn E. Fishbaugh,Phillipe Lognonné,François Raulin,David J. Des Marais,Oleg Korablev Pdf

Given the universal interest in whether extraterrestrial life has developed or could eventually develop, it is vital that an examination of planetary habitability go beyond simple assumptions. This book has resulted from a workshop at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) which brought together experts to discuss the multi-faceted problem of how the habitability of a planet co-evolves with the geology of the surface and interior, the atmosphere, and the magnetosphere.

Author : Richard Soare,Jean-Pierre Williams,Caitlin Ahrens,Frances Butcher,Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323993258

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Ices in the Solar-System by Richard Soare,Jean-Pierre Williams,Caitlin Ahrens,Frances Butcher,Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry Pdf

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. Presents a comprehensive discussion of icy bodies and processes throughout the Solar System and spanning all applicable planetary bodies Discusses ice at the micro-scale (i.e., post nebular origins) to the macro-scale, facilitating our understanding of icy processes and associated landscape evolution through multi-scalar perspectives Describes the disparate ices associated with the geological evolution of bodies large and small throughout the solar system, broadening the focus and highlighting landscape evolution derived of the disparate ice types

Author : Robert M. Haberle,R. Todd Clancy,François Forget,Michael D. Smith,Richard W. Zurek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107016187

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The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars by Robert M. Haberle,R. Todd Clancy,François Forget,Michael D. Smith,Richard W. Zurek Pdf

This volume reviews all aspects of Mars atmospheric science from the surface to space, and from now and into the past.

Author : Penelope King,Bruce Fegley,Terry Seward
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501511790

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High Temperature Gas-Solid Reactions in Earth and Planetary Processes by Penelope King,Bruce Fegley,Terry Seward Pdf

High temperature gas-solid reactions are ubiquitous on planetary bodies, distributing chemical elements over a range of geologic settings and temperatures. This volume reviews the critical role gas-solid reactions play in early solar system formation, volcanism, metamorphism and industrial processes. The field evidence, experimental and theoretical approaches for examining gas-solid reaction are presented, building on advances in fields outside of Earth Sciences. Computational chemistry techniques are used to probe the nature of molecular clusters and solvation in volcanic vapors and mineral-gas reaction mechanisms. Specialised analytical methods for characterising solid reaction products are included since these reactions commonly form thin or dispersed films and metastable minerals. Finally, the volume contains rich field examples, laboratory experiments and thermodynamic modelling and kinetics of gas-solid reactions on Earth, Venus and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000005901362

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Author : Tetsuya Tokano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540206248

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Water on Mars and Life by Tetsuya Tokano Pdf

Growing evidence, based on observations from orbiters, landers and telescopes, indicates that Mars may still have numerous hidden water reservoirs. "Water on Mars and Life" surveys recent advances made in research into water on Mars together with its astrobiological implications. Addresses not only scientists working in the field but also nonspecialists and students in search of a high-level but accessible introduction to this exciting field of research.

Author : Willy Benz,R. Kallenbach,Günter Lugmair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401141468

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From Dust to Terrestrial Planets by Willy Benz,R. Kallenbach,Günter Lugmair Pdf

The workshop "From Dust to Terrestrial Planets" was initiated by a working group of planetary scientists invited to ISSI by Johannes Geiss in November 1997. The group split to focus on three topics, one of which was the history of the early solar system, including the formation of the terrestrial planets in the inner solar system. Willy Benz, Gunter Lugmair, and Frank Podosek were invited to convene planetary scientists, astrophysicists, and cosmochemists to synthesize the current knowledge on the origin and evolution of our inner planetary system. The convenors raised the interest of scientists from all over the world in the detailed assessment of the available astronomical, chronological, geochemical and dynamical constraints of the first period of inner solar system evolution. In partic ular, this included appraisal of the newest results from astronomical observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Infrared Space Observatory, and other space and ground-based facilities of solar-like systems and nebular disks, possibly repre senting early stages of the solar accretion disk and planet formation. At the same time, the current models of the origin, evolution, transport, and accretion processes of circum stellar disks were presented. This included the new insights provided by the recent discovery of extrasolar giant planets, which were considered insofar as they are relevant to the overall dynamics of the inner part of the solar system.

Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045516

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Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments by Vivien Gornitz Pdf

One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.