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The Solar System, Third Edition

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Common Units of Measure


Complete List of Contents


Amateur Astronomy


Archaeoastronomy


Asteroids


Astrophotography


Astrophysics


Auroras


Big Bang


Brown Dwarfs


Callisto (moon)


Celestial Coordinate Systems


Ceres


Comet Halley


Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9


Comets


Commercial Crew Program


Comparative Planetology


Comparative Planetology of Venus, Earth, and Mars


Constellations


Coronal Holes and Coronal Mass Ejections


Cosmic Rays


Cosmology


Dark Matter


Dwarf Planets


Earth-Moon Relations


Earth-Sun Relations


Earth System Science


Earth’s Age


Earth’s Artificial Satellites


Earth’s Atmosphere


Earth’s Composition


Earth’s Core


Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary


Earth’s Crust


Earth’s Crust-Mantle Boundary: The Mohorovičić Discontinuity


Earth’s Differentiation


Earth’s Magnetic Field: Origins


Earth’s Magnetic Field: Secular Variation


Earth’s Magnetic Field at Present


Earth’s Magnetosphere


Earth’s Mantle


Earth’s Oceans: Evolution


Earth’s Origin


Earth’s Rotation


Earth’s Shape


Earth’s Structure


Eclipses


Electromagnetic Radiation: Nonthermal Emissions


Electromagnetic Radiation: Thermal Emissions


Enceladus


Eris and Dysnomia


Europa


Exoplanets


Exoplanets: Detection Methods


Extraterrestrial Life in the Solar System


Galaxy Types


Gamma-Ray Bursts


Ganymede


General Relativity


Gravity Measurement


Greenhouse Effect


Habitable Zones


Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram


Iapetus


Impact Cratering


Infrared Astronomy


Interplanetary Environment


Interstellar Clouds and the Interstellar Medium


Invention of the Telescope


Io


Volume 2



Common Units of Measure


Complete List of Contents


Jovian Planets


Jupiter’s Atmosphere


Jupiter’s Great Red Spot


Jupiter’s Interior


Jupiter’s Magnetic Field and Radiation Belts


Jupiter’s Ring System


Jupiter’s Satellites


Kuiper Belt


Life’s Origins


Light Pollution


Lunar Craters


Lunar History


Lunar Interior


Lunar Maria


Lunar Regolith Samples


Lunar Rocks


Lunar Surface Experiments


Main Sequence Stars


Mars: Illusions and Conspiracies


Mars: Possible Life


Mars: Surface Experiments


Mars’s Atmosphere


Mars’s Craters


Mars’s Polar Caps


Mars’s Satellites


Mars’s Valleys


Mars’s Volcanoes


Mars’s Water


Materials Processing in Space


Mercury


Meteorites: Achondrites


Meteorites: Carbonaceous Chondrites


Meteorites: Chondrites


Meteorites: Nickel-Iron


Meteorites: Stony-Iron


Meteoroids from the Moon and Mars


Meteors and Meteor Showers


Milky Way


Miranda


National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)


Nemesis and Planet X


Neptune’s Atmosphere


Neptune’s Great Dark Spot


Neptune’s Interior


Neptune’s Magnetic Field


Neptune’s Ring System


Neptune’s Satellites


Neutrino Astronomy


Novae, Bursters, and X-Ray Sources


Nuclear Synthesis in Stars


Oort Cloud


Optical Astronomy


Planetary Atmospheres


Planetary Classifications


Planetary Formation


Planetary Interiors


Planetary Magnetospheres


Planetary Orbits


Planetary Orbits: Couplings and Resonances


Planetary Ring Systems


Planetary Rotation


Planetary Satellites


Planetary Tectonics


Plasma Physics


Pluto and Charon


Private Industry and Space Exploration


Protostars


Pulsars


Radio Astronomy


Red Dwarf Stars


Red Giant Stars


Volume 3



Common Units of Measure


Complete List of Contents


Saturn’s Atmosphere


Saturn’s Interior


Saturn’s Magnetic Field


Saturn’s Ring System


Saturn’s Satellites


Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence


Solar Chromosphere


Solar Corona


Solar Evolution


Solar Flares


Solar Geodesy


Solar Infrared Emissions


Solar Interior


Solar Magnetic Field


Solar Photosphere


Solar Radiation


Solar Radio Emissions


Solar Seismology


Solar Structure and Energy


Solar System: Element Distribution


Solar System: Origins


Solar Ultraviolet Emissions


Solar Variability


Solar Wind


Solar X-Ray Emissions


Space Debris


Space Resources


Space Stations


Space Tourism


Space Warfare


Spacecraft Engineering


Space-Time Distortions


Space-Time Mathematical Models


Stellar Evolution


Sunspots


Supernovae


Telescopes: Ground-Based


Telescopes: Space-Based


Terrestrial Planets


Thermonuclear Reactions in Stars


Titan


Triton


Ultraviolet Astronomy


Universe: Evolution


Universe: Expansion


Universe: Structure


Uranus’s Atmosphere


Uranus’s Interior


Uranus’s Magnetic Field


Uranus’s Ring System


Uranus’s Satellites


Uranus’s Tilt


Van Allen Radiation Belts


Venus’s Atmosphere


Venus’s Craters


Venus’s Surface Experiments


Venus’s Surface Features


Venus’s Volcanoes


White and Black Dwarfs


X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy


Glossary


General Bibliography


Web Sites