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Planets --- Ionospheres.

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Ionospheres provides a comprehensive description of the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling the behavior of ionospheres. The relevant transport equations and related coefficients are derived in detail and their applicability and limitations are described. Relevant wave processes are outlined and important ion chemical processes and reaction rates are presented. The various energy deposition and transfer mechanisms are described in some detail, and a chapter is devoted to the various processes controlling the upper atmosphere and exosphere. The second half of the book presents our current understanding of the structure, chemistry, dynamics and energetics of the terrestrial ionosphere, and other solar system bodies. The final chapter describes ionospheric measurement techniques. The book will form a comprehensive and lasting reference for scientists interested in ionospheres, and it will also prove an ideal textbook for graduate students. It contains extensive student problem sets, and an answer book is available for instructors.

Ionosphere. --- Planets --- Ionospheres.

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Ionosphere. --- Planets --- Ionosphère --- Planètes --- Ionospheres.

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The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System provides a timely update of our knowledge of planetary atmospheres and the bodies of the outer solar system and their analogs in other planetary systems. This volume begins with an expanded treatment of the physics, chemistry, and meteorology of the atmospheres of the Earth, Venus, and Mars, moving on to their magnetospheres and then to a full discussion of the gas and ice giants and their properties. From here, attention switches to the small bodies of the solar system, beginning with the natural satellites. Then comets, meteors, meteorites, and asteroids are discussed in order, and the volume concludes with the origin and evolution of our solar system. Finally, a fully revised section on extrasolar planetary systems puts the development of our system in a wider and increasingly well understood galactic context. All of the material is presented within a framework of historical importance. This book and its sister volume, Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar system, are pedagogically well written, providing clearly illustrated explanations, for example, of such topics as the numerical integration of the Adams-Williamson equation, the equations of state in planetary interiors and atmospheres, Maxwell’s equations as applied to planetary ionospheres and magnetospheres, and the physics and chemistry of the Habitable Zone in planetary systems. Together, the volumes form a comprehensive text for any university course that aims to deal with all aspects of solar and extra-solar planetary systems.  They will appeal separately to the intellectually curious who would like to know just how far our knowledge of the solar system has progressed in recent years.

Astrophysics. --- Planet. --- Solar system. --- Astrophysics --- Extrasolar planets --- Planetary science --- Planets --- Comets --- Meteors --- Meteorites --- Asteroids --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- Atmospheres --- Ionospheres --- Magnetospheres --- Origin --- Atmospheres. --- Atmospheres of planets --- Planetary atmospheres --- Astronomical physics --- Physics. --- Planetology. --- Astronomy. --- Cosmology. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Milky Way --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Deep space