Index 945
eolian deposits, Mars landing sites,
341
Eos asteroid family, 686
Epitome(Kepler), 56
equinox, precession quantification, 54
Erman, Adolf, 65
433 Eros asteroid, 358, 655
Eros asteroid family, 692
erosion
water, Mars surface/interior, 324–327
branching valley networks, 324
gullies, 325
outflow channels, 324–325
eruption clouds, Io, 835
ESA.SeeEuropean Space Agency
ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory, 874–875
eucrites, chemical composition, 261
Europa satellite, Jupiter, 369, 370, 449
astrobiological potential, 446,
864–865
echoes detected, 736
exploration history, 431–432
formational/compositional models,
432–433
FUV spectrum ,Cassini
measurement, 670
mutual gravitational reactions, 835
properties, 432
search for life, 866–867
stress mechanisms
diurnal stressing, 434–435
internal structure, 433
nonsynchronous rotation, 435
tidal evolution, 433–434
tidal heating, 434
surface
age and evolution, 445–446
composition, 443–444
physical processes, 444–445
tectonic patterns, global, 433–435
thermal state, 443–444
volcanic features, 836
water ice presence, 750–751
Europa satellite, landforms
chaos, 441–442
craters
transient, 442
Tyre, 442, 443
impact structures, 442
lenticulae, 439–441
mapping, stratigraphy, 445
ridges, troughs, bands
cycloidal ridges, 436–437, 438
double and complex ridges, 436
folds, 438
individual troughs, 435–436
pull-apart bands, 437–438
triple bands, 437, 438
Europe, Little Ice Age, 224
European Southern Observatory 8-m
VLT, 731
European Space Agency (ESA)
DARWIN mission, 892
Giottispacecraft, Halley’s Comet
flyby, 557
Hipparcossatellite, 888
Mars Expressorbiter mission, 301,
303
Rosettamission,
Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet,
560
EUV fluxes, solar, 214, 215
EUV radiation,Hubble Space Telescope,
223
EUVEsatellite, 652, 666
exosphere
Earth, 173
surface-bounded
Mercury, 317–318, 661, 662
Moon, 662
Venus, 139
exploration missions
program evolution
launch services, 870
operations, 872–873
reliability/quality assurance, 873
spacecraft, 871–872
tracking/data acquisition,
870–871
to sun/heliosphere, 873–875
Ace, 875
Genesis, 875
Helios, 874
Isee-3, 874
Pioneer 6,7,8,9, 874
Rhessi, 875
Soho, 874–875
Solar Maximum mission(SMM),
874
Ulysses, 874
Yohkoh, 874
extrasolar planets
aka exoplanets, 50
detection techniques
astrometry, 887–888
direct imaging, 891–892
microlensing, 890–891
radial velocity method,
888–890
timing method, 891
transit photometry, 890
imaging candidates, 900
infrared radiation emission, 899
observations, 893–898
orbital plane, 890
radial velocity planets, 894
transit searches for, 898, 899Faint-Object Camera (FOC), 666
Faint-Object Spectrograph (FOS), 660
asteroid/comet observations, 679
Mercury/Moon observations, 662
Pluto observations, 669
Titan/Triton observations, 670
falls, of meteorites, 230
Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
(FUSE), 660
Fast Fourier transform (FFT), 742
feedbacks, Earth
clouds, 183
ice-albedo, 183
thermal, 183
water-vapor, 183
Feldspathic Highland Terrane (Moon),
246
ferroan anorthosite, lunar highland crust,
242–243
field generation theories, 454–455
first-order Fermi acceleration model,
solar flares, 91
5641 McCleese asteroid, 294
Flamsteed, John, 58
flux rope
tailward-moving plasma configuration,
535
Venus magnetic structure, 524
flyby missions
Deep Space 1,Borrelly’s comet, 558
Galileospacecraft
asteroid flyby, 884
Jupiter flyby, 451–452, 504, 884
Giottospacecraft, 557
Hew Horizon spacecraft, 619
Jupiter, 451–452
Mars, 315
Pioneer 10, Jupiter, 421
satellites, 373
Stardustspacecraft, Wild 2 comet, 558
VEGAspacecrafts, Halley’s comet, 557
Venus, 139
FOC.SeeFaint-Object Camera
433 Eros asteroid, 655
Fowler, Albert, 70
fusion crust, meteorites, 253
FUV spectrum measurements
Europa, 670
Jupiter, 665
Moon, 679
Titan, 671G2-V spectral star, Earth’s sun, 71
galactic cosmic rays, 100, 766
Galatea satellite, Neptune, 381
Galilean satellites, 371
atmosphere, observations, 669–670
composition, 432
formation, 432