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Chaos in Solar System Dynamics
The effect of solar system chaos on small bodies, such as comets and asteroids, is quite different from that experienced by the major planets. It is...
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The Structure of the Surface of Mercury's Regolith from Remote Sensing Data
Long experience of ground-based and cosmic studies of the Moon has shown that space-weathering processes play a key role in the formation of the...
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Radar Speckle Displacement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Obliquity and Physical Librations of Mercury
Opportunities for measuring Mercury's obliquity and physical librations are considered in the vicinity of the inferior conjunction in May–June 2002...
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Introduction
The history of science shows many close connections between physics and astronomy. It is well known that a number of physical laws evolved from a...
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Total Hemispherical Emittance of Polyimide Films for Space Use in the Temperature Range from 173 to 700 K
This paper describes the temperature dependence of the total hemispherical emittance ∈ h in the temperature range from 173 to 700 K for three types...
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Magnetically-Driven Planetary Radio Emissions and Application to Extrasolar Planets
At least six intense nonthermal planetary radio emissions are known in our solar system: the auroral radio emissions from the Earth, Jupiter, Saturn,...
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Modern Numerical Ephemerides of Planets and the Importance of Ranging Observations for Their Creation
The JPL planetary and lunar ephemerides – DE200/LE200, DE403/LE403, DE405/LE405 and the planetary and lunar ephemerides, EPM87, EPM98, and EPM2000,...
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Mercury — Goals for a Future Mission
Mercury is an end-member in our Solar System being the most dense planet and the closest to the Sun. It is also arguably the least known planet with...
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The Accretion, Composition and Early Differentiation of Mars
The early development of Mars is of enormous interest, not just in its own right, but also because it provides unique insights into the earliest...
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Ring Currents and Internal Plasma Sources
The discovery of terrestrial O + and other heavy ions in magnetospheric hot plasmas, combined with the association of energetic ionospheric outflows...
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The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein’s equivalence...
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An Overview of Solar System Gravitational Physics: The Theory—Experiment Interface
If the gravitational metric tensor field of Einstein’s General Relativity is supplemented by other long range, very weakly coupled interaction...
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Physical Processes Associated with Planetary Satellites
The study of the formation, diversity, evolution, and present state of planetary satellites is one of the most interesting and challenging subjects...
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Global MHD Simulations of Space Plasma Environments: Heliosphere, Comets, Magnetospheres of Planets and Satellites
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides an approximate description of a great variety of processes in space physics. Accurate numerical solutions of the...
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Lunam 2000 (Lunar Atmosphere Mission)
LUNAM 2000 is a small mission dedicated to the coronagraphic imagingin the Na yellow doublet and to UV spectroscopy in the range2800–3400 Å of the...
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Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy
Deflection of light by gravity was predicted by General Relativity and observationally confirmed in 1919. In the following decades, various aspects...
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RAPID – The Imaging Energetic Particle Spectrometer on Cluster
The RAPID spectrometer (Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors) for the Cluster mission is an advanced particle detector for the analysis...
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The Special Theory of Relativity
If Newton’s theory was incapable of correctly accounting for planetary motions down to their smallest measurable details, how was the theory to be...