Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms
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This revised and updated second edition provides a complete snapshot of our current knowledge on the geological features on solid-surface Solar System bodies. They extend over a wide range of scales, from micrometers to global scales, and include landform types (structural or topographic features), parts of landforms, terrain types and surface textures, surface patterns, and features identified at wavelengths extending from visible to radio waves, including albedo features, thermal infrared features, and radar features. The extensive new content addresses findings from the Messenger, Cassini, New Horizons, Curiosity and Maven missions and provides information on at least ten new landform types, as well as articles on exoplanet landforms. Refinements in methods and formations theories are also covered.
Today scientists have a huge set of images and other physical data which makes it possible to create models on the inner structure and thermal history of planetary bodies. Combined data sets lead to better supported models on the formation of surface features. These models give reliable explanations for the origin of planetary landforms. New, higher resolution images reveal new sets of meso- and microscale landforms, while images from previously not imaged dwarf planets, satellites, asteroids and cometary nuclei show landforms never seen before. In the future exoplanets are expected to continue to provide brand new types of relief features not predictable by our Earth-and Solar System bound imagination.
There are so many different landforms on planetary surfaces that it is nearly impossible for anybody to overview all of them who does not work exactly with that certain feature type. The Encyclopedia helps with presenting the landforms in searchable, alphabetical order. The book contains more than a simple list of various features: it provides context and connections between them and point to their origin. For example sand dunes were found on Venus, Mars and Titan, fluvial valleys and shorelines are present on Mars and Titan, impact craters have many different types - all are presented and explained here. Beyond the texts, references, schematic figures, images and planetary maps accompany the description of landforms, providing a wide background for detailed analyses even for geomorphologists working in planetary science. This book helps the reader discover the great variety of planetary landforms. Its continual updating makes it the go-to reference in the field.
This book describes and interprets all known landforms that have been discovered on the planetary bodies in our Solar System. Illustrated to show the general structure of each major landform type, the volume includes maps published here for the first time.
Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms contains a description and interpretation of all known planetary landforms that have been discovered on the planetary bodies in our Solar System. The content is separated into entries for each planetary landform. All entries are based on literature reviews, using NASA/ESA/JAXA imagery and original general and thematic maps of the particular landform. Such a wide variety of landforms show how exotic these features could be from a terrestrial point of view, but at the same time emphasizes that the same processes will result in similar morphology, independent of its host planet. Illustrations show the generalized structure of each major landform type and is complete with a series of special maps published here for the first time. This organized classification of planetary landform types is not available in other books, and only partially covered in scattered papers.
The most important places (landforms, named and unnamed) will be found in the main section as well as description and interpretation. This has never been done before. If necessary, these landforms will have an accompanying large-scale map. This will make it serve as a basic reference book – not discussions of large metaconcepts but the stories of well-defined landform types and individual landforms, which is usually only found only in professional papers, one paper, one landform. So this knowledge is very much scattered around in the literature.
Each landform will have a data section with height (peaks and low points), diameter, age, data. USGS maps only have diameter data.
How will it be used by planetary scientists? It will give a starting point to any landform he or she want to investigate. Previous works are thematic collections of knowledge (i.e., cratering in the Solar System, volcanic processes, etc.), while this work will approach the subject from landform types and will go deeper by analyzing individual landforms and including maps and imagery. It will be as comprehensive as possible, not only describing the most popular targets but also the (now) lesser known ones, which may be attractive for future analysis.
As an example, suppose someone wants to compare valleys of the Moon and Mercury and Titan. He or she can use this work as a starting place to consult and will find imagery, examples, and the basic literature all collected in one section, including individual features, as well as where most valleys are found (global distribution).
The maps will be printable and easy to handle, in contrast to large sheet paper maps. As for the content of the maps, they are not global maps but also not very detailed thematic geologic or topographic maps. They fall in between these extremes, which means that the researcher can understand the context but at the same time see all named features. These could serve as perfect reference maps for all planetary bodies. (Such maps are not available online.) The maps will be uniform in many of their cartographic characteristics, which gives the user a good opportunity to compare them, essential in any comparative planetology study (planets, moons, asteroids, etc.).
Planetary bodies, where global topographic data is available, will be depicted in both topographic and photomaps and capable of being printed.
The maps will contain official IAU names AND also informal geologic (and physiographic province) names that have never been put on maps (except for sketch maps), precisely because they are not official. However, since geologist use these names every day (and often complain about IAU's strict rules), we believe that this make these maps much more useful for workers in the field. Maps are for helping to find places, and these names are very important in this respect. Geologic and physiographic names have never been collected in any form (list or map), not even by USGS Gazetteer, so this will be something brand new.
Climatic data (climate diagrams) will be added to maps of Mars.
The work will include a full, updated, alphabetical list of names, with links. By 2011, our Russian colleagues may be ready with their corrections of the USGS Gazetteer. If so, the work will include these as well.
An Editorial Board will review different sections of the work. Possible Editorial Board Members by region are:
WESTERN EUROPE
Ernst Hauber, Institut für Planetenforschung, DLR, Germany (Mars)
Marita Wählisch, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Germany (Planetary Geodesy, Outer Solar System)
Dennis Reiss, University of Münster, Germany (Mars)
Arnold Gucsik (MPI für Chemie, Mainz, Germany) (Impact processes) (He is already a Springer book editor)
EASTERN EUROPE
Leonid Ksanfomality, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
A. A. Lukashov, Lomonosov University, Moscow (geomorphology)
K. B. Shingareva, MIIGAiK, Moscow (planetary cartography)
U.S.
P. Schenk, LPI, USA (planetary morphology and geology)
James R. Zimbelman, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Earth, Mars, the Moon, and Venus)
Robert Craddock, Smithsonian Institution
ASIA
Hirdy Miyamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Huang Q,. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
Dong, S.Y., Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences
Wuhan Oshigami, S., Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Zhiyong Xiao, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
Includes original photographic and topographical thematic maps, with the second edition including a new 16-page color map of Mars
Covers all solid-surface planetary bodies and moons in the Solar System in an alphabetical approach
Gives a widespread and comprehensive overview of the different types of planetary surface features, including their formation and evolution, and reflects the latest mission results on solar system bodies
Title is also available as part of a set: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms (978-3-319-26559-9)
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Henrik Hargitai
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“The Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms is the first encyclopedia of its kind specific to the area of planetary geology and provides entries on the geological features of planets and other solid bodies in our Solar System. … this is a very detailed resource that has information not easily found in one source. It is a great reference work for geologists and other planetary scientists who need an advanced and detailed resource with maps on planetary geology that analyzes individual landforms.” (Aleshia Huber, Reference Reviews, Vol. 30 (7), 2016)
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