The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars
  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.

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Yes, you can access The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars by Robert M. Haberle,R. Todd Clancy,François Forget,Michael D. Smith,Richard W. Zurek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences physiques & Astronomie et astrophysique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of contributors
  9. General Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Understanding Mars and Its Atmosphere
  12. 3 History of Mars Atmosphere Observations
  13. 4 Thermal Structure and Composition
  14. 5 Mars Clouds
  15. 6 Radiative Process: Techniques and Applications
  16. 7 The Martian Planetary Boundary Layer
  17. 8 Mesoscale Meteorology
  18. 9 The Global Circulation
  19. 10 The Mars Dust Cycle
  20. 11 The Water Cycle
  21. 12 The CO2 Cycle
  22. 13 Atmospheric Photochemistry
  23. 14 Upper Neutral Atmosphere and Ionosphere
  24. 15 Solar Wind Interaction and Atmospheric Escape
  25. 16 Recent Climate Variations
  26. 17 The Early Mars Climate System
  27. 18 Future Prospects
  28. Index
  29. Plates