Planetary geology

The Planetary Geology is the science of geological structure of the non - stellar celestial bodies and their development history.

Objects of study of the Planetary Geology are the terrestrial planets in our solar system, the moons of the planets and other solid bodies such as asteroids ( minor planets ), comets and meteorites cores.

Methods of Planetary Geology are terrestrial or space-based measurements and particularly imaging techniques of astronomy in the regions of the visible light spectrum, infrared and radar, the posting of space probes, orbiters and landing equipment to the objects under examination, the examination of samples provided on site or on the ground ( Currently only the Earth's moon, the solar wind, and a comet ), the study of meteorites, as well as model calculations and theoretical considerations. An important role in the Planetary Geology playing analogy based on the findings of geology, volcanology, glaciology, hydrology, geophysics and mineralogy on earth.

As an equivalent term sometimes the word is used planetary geology. The concept of Planetology, however, includes not only the Astro or planetary geology and astronomy -related aspects of the planets, which are not bound to a solid crust, such as in the case of the gas planets. The mutual definition of the terms is not well defined.

Since then, more and more numerous exoplanets are discovered, including the modeling of extrasolar rocky planets and the corresponding interpretation of observational data on the subject of the Planetary Geology.

Pictures of Planetary geology

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