Exploring the ocean worlds of our solar system. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bernard Henin.
• Authors: Henin, Bernard
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Contributors; Part I: The Origin of Water and Life; 1.: The Voyagers' Tale; Golden Amazons of Venus; The Jovian Revolution; A New Form of Energy; The Moons of Saturn; Beyond Saturn; 2.: The Frost Line; The Origins of Water; The Concept of the Frost Line; The Grand Tack Model; Final Thoughts; 3.: Life on Earth and in Space; The Vikings Are Coming; The Viking Experiments; The Viking Results; Post Viking Blues; Defining Life; Pushing the Boundaries of Life; The Three Ingredients for Life; Organic Chemistry for Dummies; Food Sources Time and the Complexity of LifePart II: Confirmed Ocean Worlds; 4.: Ganymede; Initial Approach; Ganymede Through the Ages; Ganymede's Story; Surface Features and the Exosphere; The Subsurface Ocean and Its Habitability; 5.: Callisto; Callisto Through the Ages; An Ever-Changing Surface; The Subsurface Ocean and Its Habitability; 6.: Europa; Europa Through the Ages; Space Age Observations; Galileo's Tale; An Ocean World Revealed; The Evidence of a Subsurface Ocean; Surface Features; Post-Galileo Discoveries; Europa's Hypothetical Plumes; Assessing Europa's Habitability; 7.: Titan The Saturnian SystemTitan's Discovery; The Atmosphere; Voyager 1 and Cassini-Huygens; The Evidence of a Subsurface Ocean; The Ocean and Its Habitability; 8.: Enceladus; Flying Through the E-Ring; The Voyagers' Encounter; Cassini's Arrival; Flying Through the Plume; The Evidence for a Subsurface Ocean; The Discovery of Hydrogen; Enceladus' Habitability; Part III: Possible New Ocean Worlds; 9.: Ceres and Dione; Ceres; Discovery and Observations; The Dawn Revolution; Water, Rocks, and the Potential for Life; Dione; Discovery and Observations; Cassini's Results and Dione's Habitability 10.: Triton and PlutoTriton; Discovery and Observations; Nitrogen Everywhere; Voyager 2's Discoveries; The Possibilities of a Subsurface Ocean; The Kuiper Belt; Pluto's Discovery and Early Observations; The New Horizons Revolution; The Case for Pluto's Subsurface Ocean; 11.: The Possible Others; Rhea; Uranus' Moons; Titania; Oberon; Ariel; The Centaurs; More About KBOs; Charon; Makemake, Quaoar, Salacia, Orcus, and 2002 MS4; Scattered Disk Objects (SDO); Part IV: Future Missions to the Ocean Worlds; 12.: Confirmed and Proposed Missions to the Ocean Worlds; The Exploration of a New Frontier Confirmed Missions to the Ocean WorldsThe Emergence of ESA's Jovian Mission; JUICE; The Europa Clipper; Proposed Future Missions to the Ocean Worlds; NASA's Europa Lander; Enceladus, Titan, and the Others; Ocean Worlds Program; The Search for Life and Final Thoughts; Appendix A: Mimas; Appendix B: Relic Surface Oceans; Three Waterworlds; Blue Mars; Blue Venus; Conversion Tables; Glossary; For Further Reading; Books; Scientific Papers and Space Agency Reports; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 001.4226; Popular works; Planets -- Water; REFERENCE / Questions & Answers; Planets -- Water; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- Astrophysics & Space Science; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology; Solar system: the Sun & planets; UFOs & extraterrestrial beings; Astronautics; Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Astronomy; Planetary science; Planetology; Astrobiology; Astrophysics; Popular astronomy & space; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319934761; 3319934767
• Related ISBNs: 9783319934754; 3319934759
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 9, 2018)
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