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Ices in the solar-system : a volatile-driven journey from the inner solar system to its far reaches /

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 sat...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Soare, Richard, Williams, Jean-Pierre, Ahrens, Caitlin, Butcher, Frances, El-Maarry, Mohamed Ramy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
Subjects:
Ice.
Solar system.
Glace.
Système solaire.
ice (water by form)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Ice song
  • The Solar System's ices and their origin
  • The ice frontier for science in the upcoming decades: A strategy for Solar System exploration?
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Chapter 1 Cold-trapped ices at the poles of Mercury and the Moon
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Observations of ices in cold traps
  • 2.1 Initial observations of water ice
  • 2.2 Detailed observations of PSRs
  • 2.2.1 MESSENGER at Mercury
  • 2.2.2 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and other recent spacecraft at the Moon
  • 3 Sources and delivery of polar volatiles
  • 4 The accumulation and loss of ice in cold traps
  • 5 Summary and future missions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Glaciation and glacigenic geomorphology on Earth in the Quaternary Period
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The global glacial system (GGS) and the cryosphere
  • 3 The process environments of the GGS that integrate it with climate and the broader global environment
  • 3.1 The subglacial process environment
  • 3.2 The supraglacial process environment
  • 3.3 The glacial Lake process environment
  • 3.3.1 Supraglacial lakes
  • 3.3.2 Subglacial lakes
  • 3.3.3 Proglacial Lakes
  • 3.4 The glaciofluvial process environment
  • 3.4.1 The englacial (including subglacial) glaciofluvial process environment
  • 3.4.2 The proglacial glaciofluvial process environment
  • 3.5 The tidewater and Fjord glacimarine process environment
  • 3.5.1 Controls and feedbacks
  • 3.5.2 The glacimarine sedimentary system
  • 3.5.3 The glacimarine land system
  • 3.6 The pelagic glacimarine process environment
  • 4 Synthesis-The global glacial system, Earth's cryosphere, and planetary analogues
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Ice on Noachian and Hesperian Mars: Atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Question 1: How was ice distributed at the surface of Mars in the Noachian and Hesperian?
  • 3 Question 2: What fraction of observed fluvial geology on Mars is due to ice melt?
  • 4 Question 3: How did the subsurface water inventory and cryosphere evolve with time, and what is its effect on the globa ...
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments