Advances in Geophysics serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Author(s): Cedric Schmelzbach, Simon Christian Stähler, Cedric Schmelzbach
Series: Advances In Geophysics, 63
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 330
City: London
Front Cover
Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1 Introduction to special issue
References
2 Seismology in the solar system
1 Introduction
2 Mercury
2.1 Potential scientific goals
2.2 Seismicity
2.3 Mission perspectives
3 Venus
3.1 Potential scientific goals
3.2 Seismicity
3.3 Mission perspectives
4 Moon
4.1 Potential scientific goals
4.2 Seismicity
4.3 Mission perspectives
5 Mars
5.1 Potential scientific goals
5.2 Mission perspectives
6 Phobos and Deimos
6.1 Potential scientific goals
6.2 Mission perspectives
7 Ceres
7.1 Potential scientific goals
7.2 Seismicity
7.3 Mission perspectives
8 Jupiter and Saturn – the giant planets
8.1 Potential scientific goals
8.2 Mission perspectives
9 Io
9.1 Potential scientific goals
9.2 Seismicity
9.3 Mission perspectives
10 Europa
10.1 Potential scientific goals
10.2 Seismicity
10.3 Mission perspectives
11 Ganymede and Callisto
11.1 Potential scientific goals
11.2 Seismicity
11.3 Mission perspectives
12 Titan
12.1 Potential scientific goals
12.2 Seismicity
12.3 Mission perspectives
13 Enceladus
13.1 Potential scientific goals
13.2 Seismicity
13.3 Mission perspectives
14 The Uranus and Neptune system
14.1 Potential scientific goals
14.2 Seismicity
14.3 Mission perspectives
15 Interstellar objects
15.1 Potential scientific goals
15.2 Seismicity
15.3 Mission perspectives
16 Lessons learned from Insight
16.1 Scattering
16.2 Timing
16.3 Bandwidth
17 Conclusion
References
3 Planetary core radii: from Plato towards PLATO
1 Introduction
1.1 Why are cores interesting?
1.2 Structure of this work
2 Methods: evaluation of the literature
3 Ye olden days: early and earliest history
3.1 The subsurface world in mythology and early natural philosophy
3.2 Celestial bodies in early natural philosophy
3.3 At the dawning of the age of science
4 Core radii of Earth, Moon, and Mars
4.1 Earth
4.2 Moon
4.3 Mars
5 Exoplanets
5.1 Observational constraints
5.2 Interior structure of exoplanets
5.2.1 Mass-radius relationships
5.2.2 Tidal parameters
5.3 Simplified model ``exoplanet''
6 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
References
4 Interior dynamics and thermal evolution of Mars – a geodynamic perspective
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
Acknowledgments
References
5 Tidal insights into rocky and icy bodies: an introduction and overview
1 Introduction
2 Viscoelasticity
2.1 General aspects
2.2 Constitutive equation
2.3 Maxwell
2.4 Burgers and extended Burgers
2.5 Andrade
2.6 Sundberg–Cooper
2.7 Power-law approximation
2.8 Rescaling for different values of the temperature, pressure, and grain size
3 Tidal and thermal evolution in planetary systems
3.1 Tidal evolution
3.2 Tidal-thermal evolution coupling
4 Tidal potential, Love numbers, and tidal response
4.1 Static tides
4.2 Actual situation: time-dependent tides
4.3 Complex Love numbers
4.4 Quality function of a homogeneous celestial body
4.5 Layered bodies
5 Tides as a probe of the deep interior
5.1 Mercury
5.2 Venus
5.3 The Moon
5.4 Mars
5.5 Moons of giant planets
5.6 Tidal signature on planetary surfaces
6 Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
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