The Solar System 2

The plan of the work follows the main course of the previous works. The first volume opens with three general chapters. Chapter 1presents a general description of the Solar System. Chapter 2describes the environment of the Solar System, the formation of stars and planets within the disks as well as the extrasolar planets. Chapter 3deals with the interaction of the Solar System with the interplanetary medium. Chapters 4 and 5 present a description of telluric and giant planets. The second volume presents the satellites and rings of giant planets ( Chapter 1), comets, asteroids and dwarf planets ( Chapter 2), meteorites and cosmochemistry ( Chapter 3), the formation and dynamics of the Solar System ( Chapter 4), the origin of life and extraterrestrial life ( Chapter 5), and lastly, the methods of study of the Solar System ( Chapter 6). Almost all of these chapters are composed of original texts. In the few cases where we have relied on texts from the last edition of the Solar System (2003), we have explicitly mentioned it. We thank J.-P. Bibring, M. Blanc, M.-A. Barucci and P. Zarka for their contributions in the previous book.

This book is intended primarily for students of planetology, astrophysics and geophysics at the undergraduate and graduate level, but we hope that it can be read with benefit by all scientists, researchers and engineers wishing to deepen their knowledge of planetology.

June 2021

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