Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System
- 1st Edition, Volume 63 - August 20, 2022
- Editors: Cedric Schmelzbach, Simon Christian Stahler
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 9 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 9 9 - 8
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Graduate students, scientists and engineers of geophysics, physics, acoustics, civil engineering, environmental sciences, geology and planetary sciences
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Introduction to special issue
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter Two: Seismology in the solar system
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mercury
- 3. Venus
- 4. Moon
- 5. Mars
- 6. Phobos and Deimos
- 7. Ceres
- 8. Jupiter and Saturn – the giant planets
- 9. Io
- 10. Europa
- 11. Ganymede and Callisto
- 12. Titan
- 13. Enceladus
- 14. The Uranus and Neptune system
- 15. Interstellar objects
- 16. Lessons learned from Insight
- 17. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Three: Planetary core radii: from Plato towards PLATO
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods: evaluation of the literature
- 3. Ye olden days: early and earliest history
- 4. Core radii of Earth, Moon, and Mars
- 5. Exoplanets
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Four: Interior dynamics and thermal evolution of Mars – a geodynamic perspective
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Geodynamic modeling and thermal evolution of Mars
- 3. Crustal thickness estimates, partial melting, and the thermal state of the lithosphere
- 4. Mantle dynamics, seismic velocities variations, and tidal dissipation
- 5. Core radius estimates and their implications for the interior dynamics
- 6. Seismogenic layer thickness and the present-day seismicity
- 7. Conclusions and future work
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Five: Tidal insights into rocky and icy bodies: an introduction and overview
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Viscoelasticity
- 3. Tidal and thermal evolution in planetary systems
- 4. Tidal potential, Love numbers, and tidal response
- 5. Tides as a probe of the deep interior
- 6. Summary and conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- No. of pages: 330
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 63
- Published: August 20, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443186981
- eBook ISBN: 9780443186998
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Cedric Schmelzbach
Cedric Schmelzbach is a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.Dr. Schmelzbach, graduate of University of Zurich (B.Sc., M.Sc.) and Uppsala University, Sweden (Ph.D.), followed by postdoc positions at University of Potsdam, Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, holds currently a senior scientist position at ETH Zurich. His research interests include seismic exploration at different scales, seismic spatial-gradient and rotational seismology, and multi-disciplinary investigations.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandSS
Simon Christian Stahler
Research seismologist, interested in planetary seismology, waveform tomography and Bayesian inference of geophysical.
Affiliations and expertise
ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institut für Geophysik, Zurich, SwitzerlandRead Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System on ScienceDirect