Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

160 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 8 Radar image of a lava flow field at 60◦N, 183◦Ein the plains of Venus. The flow fi ...

Venus: Surface and Interior 161 FIGURE 10 Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the ...

FIGURE 11 Radar image of small volcanoes on the flank of Maat Mons. The image is centered at about 3.2◦N, 194.9◦E, and is 90 km ...

Venus: Surface and Interior 163 the heavily cratered southern highlands. On Earth, plate tectonics is clearly dominant. Tectonic ...

164 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 14 This false color, perspective radar image of Alpha Regio is approximately 2000 km ...

Venus: Surface and Interior 165 FIGURE 15 Radar image of Hecate Chasma, approximately 7000×3000 km, centered at 16◦N, 240 ◦E. He ...

166 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 17 Radar image of a ridge belt in Atalanta/Vinmara Planitia, approximately 85× 110 k ...

Venus: Surface and Interior 167 FIGURE 18 Radar image of a section of lineated plains approximately 35 km across, centered at 30 ...

168 Encyclopedia of the Solar System of vast volcanic plains along with nearly ubiquitous tectonic features. There are tens of t ...

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170 Encyclopedia of the Solar System are essentially bottomless. Venus and Titan form one ter- restrial subgroup that is charact ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 171 cause nonperiodic changes. Over long timescales, plate tec- tonics and mantle conve ...

172 Encyclopedia of the Solar System an atmosphere, where molecules float off into space when they achieve escape velocity. [See ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 173 that are altitude-dependent. Other reactions that are im- portant to the creation a ...

174 Encyclopedia of the Solar System 3. Atmospheric Circulation 3.1 Processes Driving the Circulation The atmospheric circulatio ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 175 3.3 Observed Global-Scale Circulation As described earlier, the atmospheric circula ...

176 Encyclopedia of the Solar System On the other hand, this condensation and rainout of water dehydrates the air, so the descen ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 177 Triton. The atmospheres of Venus and Mars have been sam- pled by entry probes, land ...

178 Encyclopedia of the Solar System especially with respect to their vertical structure beneath the cloud tops, provides its ow ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 179 one third the mass of Earth’s oceans. On the other hand, Earth’s oceans constitute ...