CONTRIBUTORS ................................................... ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS ............................................ xiii
FOREWORD ....................................................... xv
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ................................ xvii
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION .................................. xix
CHAPTER 1. The Solar System and its Place in the Galaxy ......... 1
Paul R. Weissman
CHAPTER 2 The Origin of the Solar System ...................... 29
Alex N. Hallidaiy and John E. Chambers
CHAPTER 3 A History of Solar System Studies ................... 53
David Leverington
CHAPTER 4 The Sun ............................................. 71
Markus J. Aschwanden
CHAPTER 5 The Solar Wind ...................................... 99
John T. Gosling
CHAPTER 6 Mercury ............................................ 117
Robert G. Strom
CHAPTER 7 Venus: Atmosphere .................................. 139
Donald M. Hunten
CHAPTER 8 Venus: Surface and Interior ........................ 149
Suzanne E. Smrekar and Ellen R. Stofan
CHAPTER 9 Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans ........... 169
Timothy E. Dowling and Adam P. Showman
CHAPTER 10 Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior ............ 189
David C. Pieri and Adam M. Dziewonski
CHAPTER 11 The Sun-Earth Connection ........................... 213
Janet G. Luhmann and Stanley C. Solomon
CHAPTER 12 The Moon ........................................... 227
Stuart Ross Taylor
CHAPTER 13 Meteorites ......................................... 251
Michael E. Lipschutz and Ludolf Schultz
CHAPTER 14 Near-Earth Objects ................................. 283
Lucy A. McFadden and Richard P. Binzel
CHAPTER 15 Mars Atmosphere: History and Surface Interactions .. 301
David C. Catling and Conway Leovy
CHAPTER 16 Mars: Surface and Interior ......................... 315
Michael H. Carr
CHAPTER 17 "Mars: Landing Site Geology, Mineralogy, and
Geochemistry ....................................... 331
Matthew P. Golombek and Harry Y. McSween, Jr.
CHAPTER 18 Main-Belt Asteroids ................................ 349
Daniel Т. Britt, Guy Colsolmagno, and Larry
Lebofsky
CHAPTER 19 Planetary Satellites ............................... 365
Bonnie J. Buratti and Peter C. Thomas
CHAPTER 20 Atmospheres of the Giant Planets ................... 383
Robert A. West
CHAPTER 21 Interiors of the Giant Planets ..................... 403
Mark S. Marley and Jonathan J. Fortney
CHAPTER 22 Io: The Volcanic Moon .............................. 419
Rosaly M.C. Lopes
CHAPTER 23 Europa ............................................. 431
Louise M. Prockter and Robert T. Pappalardo
CHAPTER 24 Ganymede and Callisto .............................. 449
Geoffrey Collins and Torrence V. Johnson
CHAPTER 25 Titan .............................................. 467
Athena Coustenis
CHAPTER 26 Triton ............................................. 483
William B. McKinnon and Randolph L. Kirk
CHAPTER 27 Planetary Rings .................................... 503
Carolyn C. Porco and Douglas P. Hamilton
CHAPTER 28 Planetary Magnetospheres ........................... 519
Margaret Galland Kivelson and Fran Bagenal
CHAPTER 29 Pluto .............................................. 541
S. Alan Stern
CHAPTER 30 Physics and Chemistiy of Comets .................... 557
John C. Brandt
CHAPTER 31 Comet Populations and Cometary Dynamics ............ 575
Harold F. Levison and Luke Dones
CHAPTER 32 Kuiper Belt: Dynamics .............................. 589
Alessandro Morbidelli and Harold F. Levison
CHAPTER 33 Kuiper Belt Objects: Physical Studies .............. 605
Stephen C. Tegler
CHAPTER 34 Solar System Dust .................................. 621
Eberhard Grün
CHAPTER 35 X-Rays in the Solar System ......................... 637
Anil Bhardwaj and Carey M. Lisse
CHAPTER 36 The Solar System at Ultraviolet Wavelengths ........ 659
Amanda R. Hendrix, Robert M. Nelson, and
Deborah L. Domingue
CHAPTER 37 Infrared Views of the Solar System from Space ...... 681
Mark V. Sykes
CHAPTER 38 The Solar System at Radio Wavelengths .............. 695
Imke de Pater and William S. Kurth
CHAPTER 39 New Generation Ground-Based Optical/ Infrared
Telescopes ......................................... 719
Alan T. Tokunaga and Robert Jedicke
CHAPTER 40 Planetary Radar .................................... 735
Steven J. Ostro
CHAPTER 41 Remote Chemical Sensing Using Nuclear
Spectroscopy ....................................... 765
Thomas H. Prettyman
CHAPTER 42 Solar System Dynamics: Regular and Chaotic Motion .. 787
Jack J. Lissauer and Carl D. Murray
CHAPTER 43 Planetary Impacts .................................. 813
Richard A.F. Grieve, Mark J. Cintala and,
Roald Tagle
CHAPTER 44 Planetary Volcanism ................................ 829
Lionel Wilson
CHAPTER 45 Astrobiology ....................................... 849
Christopher P. McKay and Wanda L. Davis
CHAPTER 46 Planetary Exploration Missions ..................... 869
James D. Burke
CHAPTER 47 Extrasolar Planets ................................. 887
Michael Endl and William D. Cochran
APPENDIX ...................................................... 903
GLOSSARY ...................................................... 919
INDEX ......................................................... 939
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