Ices in the Solar-System
A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches
- 1st Edition - November 20, 2023
- Editors: Richard Soare, Jean-Pierre Williams, Caitlin Ahrens, Frances Butcher, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 2 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 2 5 - 8
Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to Its FarReaches explores the origins, evolution and distribution of various ice species throughou… Read more
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Reaches explores the origins, evolution and distribution of various ice species throughout the
solar system.
Geographically, the book’s focus on ice(s) migrates outwardly from Mercury, the Earth and the
Moon, Mars, then Ceres and other volatile-rich small bodies; it carries on with the moons of
Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, followed by Pluto and other Kuiper Belt/Trans-Neptunian objects.
Conceptually and empirically, the book depicts the often-enigmatic narratives of the different
ice species (H2O, CO2, CH4, etc.) in the solar system and examines their interaction with a wide
range of surface, near-subsurface, interior and atmospheric processes.
- • Draws a pan solar-system view of various ice species
• Identifies and addresses outstanding and sometimes puzzling questions about these ices
• Describes the dynamic relationships between these ices and the geological history of the
planets, moons, and smaller bodies where they occur
• Studies these relationships using multiple analytical-scales and techniques
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Ice song
- The Solar System’s ices and their origin
- References
- 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
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observations of ices in cold traps
- 3 Sources and delivery of polar volatiles
- 4 The accumulation and loss of ice in cold traps
- 5 Summary and future missions
- References
- Chapter 2 Glaciation and glacigenic geomorphology on Earth in the Quaternary Period
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- 4 Synthesis—The global glacial system, Earth’s cryosphere, and planetary analogues
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3 Ice on Noachian and Hesperian Mars: Atmospheric, surface, and subsurface processes
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 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 global hydrologic cycle?
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4 Glacial deposits, remnants, and landscapes on Amazonian Mars: Using setting, structure, and stratigraphy to understand ice evolution and climate history
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key questions about Mars’ Amazonian ice and climate history
- 3 Constraints on the timing of Martian glaciations
- 4 Conclusions and outlook
- References
- Chapter 5 Evidence, arguments, and cold-climate geomorphology that favour periglacial cycling at the Martian mid-to-high latitudes in the Late Amazonian Epoch
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ice-rich landscapes on Earth and on Mars
- 3 Low to high-centred polygon ratios in Utopia Planitia: Statistical support of an ice-wedge origin
- 4 Periglaciation and time
- 5 Brine-related eutectic temperatures and water
- 6 Volcanism and endogenic heat
- 7 Periglacial landscapes: relatively recent, ancient, or both?
- 8 Cold-room (permafrost/active layer) experiments
- 9 The periodicity of periglacial/glacial cycles, on Mars as on Earth?
- 10 Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6 Ice Exploration on Mars: Whereto and when?
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What on Earth?
- 3 What on Mars?
- 4 In the works!
- 5 Whereto?
- References
- Chapter 7 Ceres—A volatile-rich dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Pre-Dawn evidence for a volatile-rich Ceres
- 2 Dawn mission background and timeline
- 3 State of knowledge after Dawn
- 4 Ceres’ evolution and current interior structure
- 5 Ceres origin and implications for the origin of the Main Belt
- 6 Summary
- References
- Chapter 8 Small icy bodies in the inner Solar System
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Icy bodies: Distinct types or a broad continuum?
- 3 So where is the ice?
- 4 How to know if a small body is “icy”?
- 5 “How did you get here, and where do you come from?”
- 6 “What happens to you and your ice?”
- 7 Future perspectives
- References
- Chapter 9 Jupiter’s ocean worlds: Dynamic ices and the search for life
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to the icy Galilean satellites
- 2 The unique geology of Jovian ice shells
- 3 Origin and evolution of the H2O layers
- 4 Interior structures and dynamics of Jovian hydropsheres
- 5 Ice and life
- 6 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 10 Titan, Enceladus, and other icy moons of Saturn
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Missions to the Saturnian system
- 3 Titan
- 4 Enceladus
- 5 Iapetus
- 6 Dione
- 7 Hyperion
- 8 Other Saturnian icy satellites
- 9 Prebiotic chemistry on icy moons
- 10 Future missions to Titan and Enceladus
- 11 Summary
- References
- Chapter 11 Geocryology of Pluto and the icy moons of Uranus and Neptune
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction and background
- 2 Pre-New Horizons understanding
- 3 Ices in the outer solar system
- 4 Subsurface oceans
- 5 Cryovolcanism
- 6 Pluto and Arrokoth
- 7 Summary and conclusions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 418
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 20, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323993241
- eBook ISBN: 9780323993258
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Richard Soare
Richard Soare is a physical geographer specializing in periglacial (cold-climate, non-glacial landscapes). Through the last twenty years he has spent considerable time in the Canadian arctic (physically) and off-planet (intellectually), attempting to identify landscapes on Mars present or past possibly molded by the freeze-thaw cycling of water. His work spans the red planet geographically, ranging from the plains of Utopia Planitia in the northern hemisphere and the Moreux impact-crater at the Mars dichotomy through to the Argyre impact-crater in the southern hemisphere. Recently, he lead-edited “Mars Geological Enigmas: from the late Noachian Epoch to the present day” and a special issue of Icarus: “Current and Recent Landscape Evolution on Mars.”
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Jean-Pierre Williams
Jean-Pierre Williams is a planetary scientist at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA and was a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for five years before accepting a position at UCLA. His work focuses on the geology and physics of the inner planets, and he has authored and co-authored over sixty peer-reviewed publications on Mars, Mercury, and the Earth’s Moon. He is currently the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a member of the ShadowCam instrument team on the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (Danuri) mission, which will image the permanently shadowed regions near the poles of the Moon, and a Co-Investigator of the Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE), a lander and rover that will explore the summit of a volcanic dome on the Moon.
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Caitlin Ahrens
Caitlin Ahrens is a postdoctoral research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. Ahrens received her B.S. in Physics/Astrophysics and Geology from West Virginia University in 2015, and a Ph.D. in Space and Planetary Science at the University of Arkansas in 2020. She has an outstanding record in public engagement and science communication, through lectures, local radio, and international collaborations. Her main area of research involves remote sensing of icy surfaces and volatile interactions, from the Moon to the outer Solar System at Pluto.
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Frances Butcher
Frances Butcher is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She completed her PhD, entitled ‘Wet-Based Glaciation on Mars’, at the Open University in 2019. She is a geomorphologist whose research focuses on glaciation and other ice-related processes on Mars and Earth. Her particular interest is in the landforms left behind by glaciers and ice sheets, and their implications for past environmental change on both planets. Her research involves the use of remote sensing data for mapping and quantitative 3D terrain analyses, as well as interplanetary comparisons. These techniques inform empirical and numerical modelling reconstructions of glacial processes and past environmental change. To date, she has authored/co-authored 17 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently the chair of the International Association of Geomorphologists Planetary Geomorphology Working Group.
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Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry
Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry is currently the director of the Space and Planetary Science Center and an associate professor of planetary sciences at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. He has been involved with numerous space missions in the past 15 years for both ESA and NASA, including ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission, in addition to being on the science teams for numerous other active and future missions including the HiRISE camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission, and the UAE’s upcoming Emirates Lunar Mission. His research covers planetary surfaces with a focus on geomorphology and associated physical processes. In addition to his research activities, he has participated in numerous reviewing and expert NASA and ESA evaluation panels.