
Water Worlds in the Solar System
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Key Features
- Presents a comprehensive reference on water in the Solar System, developing readers’ understanding of the importance and occurrence of water on Earth and beyond from an oceanographer’s perspective
- Contrasts terrestrial analogues in relation to their roles in understanding and exploring ocean worlds and habitability
- Includes numerous figures, illustrations, tables, and videos to help readers better understand the concepts covered
Readership
Researchers, professionals, academics, graduate students, and undergraduates in Planetary science, extraterrestrial water research (oceanography, limnology, hydrology), and habitability potential Terrestrial oceanographers and aquatic scientists comparing other water worlds to Earth
Table of Contents
1. Knowing Earth to Better Understand Extraterrestrial Worlds
2. Terrestrial Analogues and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents - Their Roles in Exploring Ocean Worlds, Habitability, and Life beyond Earth
3. Biosignatures - the Prime Targets in the Search for Life beyond Earth
4. Significance of Earthly Extremophiles in the Search for Habitability beyond Earth
5. Lunar Explorations: Discovering Water, Minerals, and Underground Caves and Tunnel Complexes - Hope for Human Settlement and Resource Exploitation?
6. Liquid Water Lake Under Ice in Mars’s Southern Hemisphere - Possibility of Subsurface Biosphere and Life
7. Could Near-Earth Watery Asteroid Ceres Be a Likely Ocean World and Habitable?
8. Water on Near-Earth Asteroid Vesta - Past and Present
9. An Ocean and Volcanic Seafloor Hiding Within Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa - Eruption of Water Vapour Plumes Near its South and North Poles
10. Salty Ocean and Submarine Hydrothermal Vents on Saturn's Moon Enceladus - Tall Plume of Gas, Jets of Water Vapour and Organic-Enriched Ice Particles Spewing from its South Pole
11. Hydrocarbon Lakes and Seas & Internal Ocean on Titan - Resemblance with Primitive Earth's Prebiotic Chemistry
12. A Likely Ocean World Fostering a Rare Mixing of CO and N2 Ice Molecules on Neptune's Moon Triton
13. Subsurface Ocean of Liquid Water on Pluto
14. Hunting for Environments Favorable to Life on Planets, Moons, Dwarf Planets, and Meteorites
Product details
- No. of pages: 500
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2023
- Published: January 1, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323957175
About the Author
Antony Joseph
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