The Delivery of Water to Protoplanets, Planets and Satellites, 1st ed. 2019 Space Sciences Series of ISSI Series, Vol. 64
Langue : Anglais
Coordonnateurs : Morbidelli Alessandro, Blanc Michel, Alibert Yann, Elkins-Tanton Lindy, Estrada Paul, Hamano Keiko, Lammer Helmut, Raymond Sean, Schönbächler Maria
Liquid water is essential for the emergence of life at least as we know it on Earth. Written by recognized experts in the field, this volume provides a complete inventory of water throughout the Solar System and a comprehensive overview of the evolution of water from the interstellar medium to the final planetesimals and planets.
Through a series of up-to-date review papers, the book describes how water influences the geophysical evolutions of bodies and how it is in turn affected by such evolutions. Processes like atmospheric escape under the effect of stellar irradiation and collisional impacts are discussed in detail, with specific emphasis on the consequences for the budgets of water and volatile elements in general. Specific papers on the emergence of life on Earth and the prospects of habitability on extrasolar planets are included.
The papers take an interdisciplinary approach to habitability, addressing it from the perspectives of astronomy, planetary science, geochemistry, geophysics and biology. Comprehensive yet easy to read, this volume serves as an invaluable resource to scholarly, professional and general audiences alike.?Originally published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection "The Delivery of Water to Protoplanets, Planets and Satellites"
Introduction to the Delivery of Water to Proto-Planets, Planets and Satellites.- The Importance of Water for Life.- Water Reservoirs in Small Planetary Bodies: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets.- Water in the Earth’s Interior: Distribution and Origin.- Water and Volatile Inventories of Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars.- Water and Volatiles in the Outer Solar System.- Disk Evolution and the Fate of Water.- Giant Planet Formation and Migration.- The Delivery of Water During Terrestrial Planet Formation.- Water Partitioning in Planetary Embryos and Protoplanets with Magma Oceans.- Water and the Interior Structure of Terrestrial Planets and Icy Bodies.- Water Loss from Young Planets.- Atmosphere Impact Losses.- Water in Extrasolar Planets and Implications for Habitability.
Alessandro Morbidelli is director of research at CNRS, working in Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice, France. He is an expert of dynamical aspects of formation and evolution of planetary systems. He is one of the editors of the journal Icarus, devoted to planetary science. He has published more than 200 research papers and one book. Recipient of several international awards, he is now associate member of the Academy of Sciences in France and Belgium.
Linda Elkins-Tanton is the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and of the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University, and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. Her research concerns terrestrial planetary formation and evolution, and she promotes and pract
Michel Blanc is an astronomer at IRAP, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse. He works on the physics of planetary magnetospheres and on the exploration of giant planets systems. He is an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the Cassini mission to Saturn and Titan and a co-I of the Juno mission to Jupiter. He was also the main proponent to ESA of the Laplace mission concept, which is currently implemented as JUICE. He is the author of about 150 research papers and has edited several ISSI books. He is a member of theAcademia Europaea, of the Air and Space Academy and of the International Academy of Astronautics. He was granted the first Cassini medal of the European Geosciences Union.
Yann Alibert is researcher at the CNRS, on leave since 2010, and presently working at the University of Bern. He is an expert in the formation and evolution of planetary systems. He received one of the first ERC starting grants in planetary sciences and is the author of numerous papers. He is now project leader and science officer in the NCCR PlanetS.
Provides an invaluable overview of water in the universe Written in a style accessible to students, young researchers and senior scientists alike Offers the most recent, up-to-date results in the field and puts them into context
Date de parution : 01-2019
Ouvrage de 450 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
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