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6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1. Uranus imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s CCD camera in 2003. Th...Figure 6.2. Diagram representing the spectrum of a planet from the visible to th...Figure 6.3. Degree of polarization as a function of reflectivity for planets in ...Figure 6.4. Analysis of an atmosphere by the stellar occultation method: refract...Figure 6.5. Radio emissions from JupiterFigure 6.6. Images of synchrotron radiation from Jupiter’s radiation belts. For ...Figure 6.7. State of exploration for bodies in the Solar System. For a color ver...Figure 6.8. Phases of the Huygens probe mission in the atmosphere of Titan (sour...Figure 6.9. Optical diagram of the E-ELT, with its original anastigmatic configu...Figure 6.10. LIDT-DD simulation of a giant collision in a disk of debris, 300 ye...Figure 6.11. Synthetic Sphere image of an impact in a disk (source: (Kral 2014))...Figure 6.12. Representative diagram of a GCM. The atmosphere is represented in t...Figure 6.13. (left) Column density of water vapor and (right) opacity of clouds ...
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 2.1. Some notable unnumbered comets.Table 2.2. Some notable short-period comets (among the numbered comets). The ret...Table 2.3. Space exploration of the comets; D and V are distance and speed relat...Table 2.4. Orders of magnitude for the size and activity of several typical come...Table 2.5. Properties of some molecules outgassed from cometary ice. X is the ab...Table 2.6. Main physical properties of 5 asteroids explored by space probes in o...Table 2.7. Main properties of dwarf planetsTable 2.8. List of candidate dwarf planets
Guide
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8 Glossary
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