Morphology of the Rocky Members of the Solar System

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Elazar Uchupi, Kenneth O. Emery

   Pages 1-5

3. Origin of the Solar System

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   Pages 7-31

4. Morphology of Planets and Satellites

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   Pages 33-36

5. Earth

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   Pages 37-92

6. Moon

   • Elazar Uchupi, Kenneth O. Emery

   Pages 93-119

7. Mercury

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   Pages 121-136

8. Venus

   • Elazar Uchupi, Kenneth O. Emery

   Pages 137-186

9. Mars

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   Pages 187-258

10. Outer Planets and Satellites

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    Pages 259-318

11. Summary and Conclusions

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    Pages 319-344

12. Back Matter

    Pages 345-395

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These words are written on the SOOth anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World. Surely the deep-space exploration of other worlds in our Solar System over the past few decades is an event of similar magnitude. Man has traveled far enough to see Spaceship Earth suspended alone in black space. And he has voyaged even farther to marvel at the crescent Earth rising over the Moon's cratered terrain. Instrumented spacecraft have toured the entire Solar System even beyond the ninth planet Pluto. This work of science Morphology of the Rocky Members of the Solar System is an inquiry about our extended home. As with the Darwinian and Copernican paradigms, the nature of our planetary system, as the extended world around us, has great significance for those who ponder the human condition. The deep-space views of our Planet Ocean with its sweeping clouds, and moving oceans and creeping continents must rank as the greatest photograph ever taken. Viewing Spaceship Earth hanging in the vast void is an almost frightening experience. We are so alone! It is easy to understand why so many are attracted to a simpler account of origins, like the allegorical tale of creation written in heroic style (but eschewing math, maps, figures, tables, references, and evidence) in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. This treatise examines the morphology of the six rocky planets and their 27 satellites from a broad perspective.

• Geomorphologie
• Planetary Evolution
• Planetenentwicklung
• Satelliten
• Satellites
• Solar System
• Sonnensystem
• geomorphology
• geophysics

• Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (W.H.O.I.), Woods Hole, USA

  Elazar Uchupi, Kenneth O. Emery

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