Solar System Ices : Based on Reviews Presented at the International Symposium “Solar System Ices” Held in Toulouse, France, on March 27–30, 1995

Predicted long ago to be present on the surface of planetary bodies by theoreticians and recently shown by interplanetary spacecraft and ground- based instruments to be ubiquitous in the Solar System, ices in a broad sense have become an extremely important subject in planetary research. Ices found on objects formed in the remote parts of the Solar System contain a message about the composition and mode of formation of our planetary system. There are also objects that contain icy materials that bear signatures of past events on a geological timescale. Their study is one of the best means of inquiring about the origins, accessing the past and anticipating the future of our Solar System. The reviews in this book collect together a series of papers covering the physics and chemistry of ices, as well as the geology of icy surfaces. They present an extensive summary of their chemical and physical properties relevant to planetary astronomy. They also provide an overview of planetary bodies that contain ices and the outstanding problems of the field. __Audience:__ The book is intended to become a reference for researchers and graduate students. It is accessible to senior graduate students with a background in planetary science. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Physical Chemistry of Ices in the Outer Solar System....Pages 3-32 Thermal Conductivity of Solar System Ices, with Special Reference to Martian Polar Caps....Pages 33-62 Rheology of Planetary Ices....Pages 63-78 Thermodynamic Properties of High Pressure Ices: Implications for the Dynamics and Internal Structure of Large Icy Satellites....Pages 79-96 Clathrate Hydrates on Earth and in the Solar System....Pages 97-117 Metamorphism of Solar System Ices....Pages 119-138 Amorphous Water Ice....Pages 139-155 Reflectance Spectroscopy of Icy Surfaces....Pages 157-197 Optical Properties of Ices From UV to Infrared....Pages 199-240 Microwave Properties of Ice and Snow....Pages 241-257 UV Photochemistry of Ices....Pages 259-279 Chemistry of Ice Induced by Bombardment with Energetic Charged Particles....Pages 281-301 Sputtering and Desorption from Icy Surfaces....Pages 303-334 Front Matter....Pages 335-335 From Interstellar Dust to Comets: Distributed Co in Comet Halley....Pages 337-351 Trapping of Gases in Water Ice and Consequences to Comets and the Atmospheres of the Inner Planets....Pages 353-366 Origin and Evolution of Comets, Icy Planets and Satellites....Pages 367-394 Composition and Physical Properties of Comets....Pages 395-417 Front Matter....Pages 419-419 Terrestrial Snow Studies from Remote Sensing in the Solar Spectrum and the Thermal Infrared....Pages 421-441 Polar Stratospheric Clouds on Earth....Pages 443-475 Mars CO 2 Ice Polar Caps....Pages 477-507 Front Matter....Pages 509-509 Introduction to Icy Satellite Geology....Pages 511-523 Geodynamics of Icy Satellites....Pages 525-550 Geologic Landforms and Processes on Icy Satellites....Pages 551-578 Ices on the Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus....Pages 579-606 Ices on Io — Composition and Texture....Pages 607-637 Surface-Atmosphere Interactions on Titan....Pages 639-653 The Surface Compositions of Triton, Pluto, and Charon....Pages 655-684 Pluto and the Kuiper Disk....Pages 685-709 The Rings of the Outer Planets....Pages 711-734 Ices in the Giant Planets....Pages 735-748 Atmospheric Ices....Pages 749-772 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions and Volatile Transport (Triton, Pluto, and Io)....Pages 773-812 Back Matter....Pages 815-826 Based on Reviews Presented at the International Symposium held in Toulouse, France, March 278-30, 1995