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Ionospheres of the terrestrial planets
Reviews of Geophysics, 1980The theory and observations relating to the ionospheres of the terrestrial planets Venus, the earth, and Mars are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on comparing the basic differences and similarities between the planetary ionospheres. The review covers the plasma and electric‐magnetic field environments that surround the planets, the theory leading to the ...
Andrew F. Nagy, Robert W. Schunk
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History of the terrestrial planets
Geologische Rundschau, 1977A time table showing the history of the terrestrial planets is submitted in this paper. The planetary evolution is presented within the framework of global tectonics, whereby a distinction is made between exogenous and endogenous processes. Beginning with the age of 4.5 × 109 years and extending to the age of 3.0 × 109 years all terrestrial planets are
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The Terrestrial Planets and Their Satellites
2004The four planets closest to the Sun; Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (and to which one can add the Moon), have many similarities that justify their being considered together. These planets are sometimes called the inner planets, because of their proximity to the Sun, or terrestrial planets, with the Earth serving as a convenient reference.
Thérèse Encrenaz +5 more
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Climates of terrestrial planets
2016Suppose we detect a planet half the size of Venus orbiting a 5 billion year old M-type star at 0.5 AU. To our surprise the planet has detectable radiation belts. How might the planet's climate and surface habitability differ from that of Venus? The prospect that the scientific community might be faced in the next decade or two with questions like the
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Meteorology of the terrestrial planets
Surveys in Geophysics, 1994The thermodynamics, dynamics, weather and general circulation (climate) of the atmospheres of Venus, Earth and Mars is reviewed, in the light of present knowledge. These three terrestrial planets each have a gaseous sunlit envelope, but the realizations of motions in them are quite different. This makes comparisons of their meteorology very interesting
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The Strangest Terrestrial Planet
Science, 2012NASA's MESSENGER mission previously revealed that Mercury has a volcanic crust; now it finds evidence for an inner “anticrust.”
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Densities of the Terrestrial Planets
Nature, 1969Recent determinations of the masses and radii of the planets may be interpreted as showing that the systems Earth–Moon–Mars and Mercury–Venus could have resulted from the break-up of two unstable planetary bodies of identical chemical composition. Thereby various features of planetary evolution would be elucidated.
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Science, 2014
Recent numerical models may provide a clearer understanding of the forces that shape planetary systems.
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Recent numerical models may provide a clearer understanding of the forces that shape planetary systems.
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Formation of the Terrestrial Planets
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1980Two growth mechanisms are identified for the development of the terrestrial planets: (1) gravitational instability leading to a collapse, and (2) gravitational accumulation caused by two-body collisions and coherence. The presence of a dynamically-significant gas phase would not affect either mechanism.
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AIP Conference Proceedings, 2004
Some of the astronomical and cosmochemical constraints on the formation of the Sun’s terrestrial planets are reviewed, and the planetesimal theory of planetary accretion is described. Several difficulties remain for this model, especially in its earliest stage, but substantial progress has been made in recent years.
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Some of the astronomical and cosmochemical constraints on the formation of the Sun’s terrestrial planets are reviewed, and the planetesimal theory of planetary accretion is described. Several difficulties remain for this model, especially in its earliest stage, but substantial progress has been made in recent years.
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