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Planetary atmospheres
Author(s) -
Leovy Conway
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg025i002p00297
Subject(s) - uranus , venus , astrobiology , astronomy , planetary science , vega , solar system , mars exploration program , spacecraft , physics , geology , planet
Rapid advances in our understanding of planetary atmospheres have occurred since the previous quadrennial review (Beebe, 1983), based to a large extent on analyses of planetary spacecraft data from earlier periods. The VEGA mission at Venus and Voyager 2 at Uranus provided new data, as did an active program of remote sensing from Earth and its vicinity. A number of valuable books and review articles appeared focusing on the origin and evolution of atmospheres as well as their present states (e.g., Lewis and Prinn, 1984; Hunt, 1983; Pollack and Consolmagno, 1984). Clearly, research on atmospheres in the solar system is no longer just exploratory; it has reached the stage of in‐depth study.