Planetary Geoscience

Author: Harry Y. McSween, Jr (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 350 For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and related laboratory research on extraterrestrial materials have given us a new understanding of planets and how they are shaped by geological processes. Based...Read more