Introduction to Planetary Science The Geological Perspective - Faure, Gunter; Mensing, Teresa M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
The Urge to Explore -- From Speculation to Understanding -- The Planets of the Solar System -- Life and Death of Stars -- Origin of the Solar System -- Earth: Model of Planetary Evolution -- The Clockwork of the Solar System -- Meteorites and Impact Craters -- The Earth-Moon System -- Mercury: Too Hot for Comfort -- Venus; Planetary Evolution Gone Bad -- Mars: The Little Planet that Could -- Asteroids: Shattered Worlds -- Jupiter: Heavy-Weight Champion -- Galilean Satellites: Jewels of the Solar System -- Saturn: The Beauty of Rings -- Titan: An Ancient World in Deep Freeze -- Uranus: What Happened Here? -- Neptune: More Surprises -- Pluto and Charon: The Odd Couple -- Ice Worlds at the Outer Limit -- Comets: Coming Inside from the Cold -- Earth: The Cradle of Humans -- Brown-Dwarf Stars and Extrasolar Planets.
Keywords: Planetology; Geochemistry; Geophysics; Mineralogy; Astrophysics; Planetology; Geochemistry; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Mineralogy; Astrophysics and Astroparticles