Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Our knowledge of the planets and the satellites of the Solar System has grown enormously particularly due to the stimulus from space missions. Studies of the interiors, atmospheres and interplanetary regions have all benefited from these developments. The result has been an increase in our understanding of the general workings of the planets and satellites and relative planetology has become an active area of quantitative study. These aspects are likely to develop significantly in the future and the effects on our appreciation of the Earth itself will be very significant. Conditions within the interiors of the planets and larger satellites are reviewed in the present paper against the more general background of the physics to be expected for a planetary body in general. No other planetary system has yet been discovered for comparative study so our Sun with its group of planets and satellites remains to us unique.
Source: Reports on Progress in Physics
Author: G H A Cole
Institution: University of Hull
Language: English
Topic: Astro and Planetary Science
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2032066099