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Planetary Surface Processes

We are privileged to be living in one of the greatest eras of exploration that humankind has ever undertaken. Our current Age of Space grew out of the dark struggles of World War II when large rockets were developed as agents of mass murder. The subsequent Cold War rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union pushed rocket capabilities to the point that it became possible to send vehicles into Earth orbit and beyond (even though the stated aim was to send missiles carrying nuclear weapons over mere continental distances). The Russians put the first human into Earth orbit. The Apollo missions took American astronauts to the. | CAMBRIDGE PLANETARY SCIENCE V Planetary Surface Processes H.jay Melosh Cambridge more information - www.cambridge.org 9780521514187 PLANETARY SURFACE PROCESSES Planetary Surface Processes is the first advanced textbook to cover the full range of geologic processes that shape the surfaces of planetary-scale bodies. This comprehensive introduction ranges from microscopic aspects of the soil on airless asteroids to the topography of super-Earth planets. Using a modern quantitative approach this book reconsiders geologic processes outside the traditional terrestrial context. It highlights processes that are contingent upon Earth s unique circumstances and processes that are universal. For example it shows explicitly that equations predicting the velocity of a river are dependent on gravity traditional geomorphology textbooks fail to take this into account. This textbook is a one-stop source of information on planetary surface processes providing readers with the necessary background to interpret new data from NASA ESA and other space missions. Based on a course taught by the author at the University of Arizona for 25 years it is aimed at advanced students and is also an invaluable resource for researchers professional planetary scientists and space-mission engineers. H. jAy MELOSH is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Purdue University. His principal research interests are impact cratering planetary tectonics and the physics of earthquakes and landslides. He is a science team member of NASA s Deep Impact mission that successfully cratered comet Tempel 1 on July 4 2005. Professor Melosh was awarded the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society in 1999 the Gilbert prize of the Geological Society of America in 2001 the Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2008 and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He has published over 170 technical papers edited two books and is the author of Impact Cratering A Geologic .