948 Index
hydrodynamic escape, Mars, 304
hydrogen
deuterated, giant planets, 386
Jupiter, 32, 47, 665
Mars atmosphere, 304
Saturn, 32, 666
solar wind, Mercury, 119
Sun, 38
hydrogen cloud, comets, 565–567, 570
hydrogen cyanide (HCN),
Jupiter/Saturn, 388
Hyperion satellite, Saturn, 369
albedo, 378
ice covered, 378
Iapetus satellite, Saturn, 375–378
IAU.SeeInternational Astronomical
Union
1566 Icarus near-Earth asteroid, 736
ice
comets/comet tails, 561–562
Galilean satellites, 432
giant planets, 49
Mars surface/interior, 325–326
SO 2 /CO 2 , Ganymede/Callisto, 459
ice-albedo feedbacks, Earth, 183
ice/rock bulk, Ganymede/Callisto, 452,
453, 455, 459
ICME.Seeinterplanetary coronal mass
ejections
Icy satellites
solid surfaces, observations, 677–678
volcanic features, 836
IDPs.Seeinterplanetary dust particles
Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP), 332
Imbrium impact basin, Moon, 125
impact basins
crater shape, 814
Moon, 125
impact craters
breccia lens, 814
dimensions, 818–819
Europa, 442
formation, 819–821
Ganymede/Callisto, Jupiter, 459–461,
817
impactor types, 827
Mars surface/interior
crater morphology, 320–321
cratering rates, 320
Mercury, 123–125
origin, Earth’s Moon, 824
on Phobos, Mars, 374
and planetary evolution, 823–826
biosphere evolution, 825–826
early crustal evolution, 824–825
Earth’s moon, 824
shape, 813–818
complex, 814
impact basins, 814
simple, 814
Tethys satellite, Saturn, 376
Venus, 152–154, 816
impact detectors
Long Duration Exposure Facility, 627
penetration/impact ionization
detectors, 628
impact escape, Mars atmosphere, 304
impact processes
changes in target rocks
melting, 823
solid effects, 822–823
crater formation, 819–821
impactors, planetary
chemical identification, 826
CR isotopes, 827
elemental ratios, 827–828
OS isotopes, 826–827
physical identification, 826
inertia
moment of
Ganymede/Callisto, 452
Moon, 227, 229
thermal, Mars surface/interior, 312
Infrared Astronomical Satellite(IRAS)
false color images, 573
star observations, infrared radiation,
30
thermal infrared operational, 684
infrared detector array telescopes, 721
infrared flux radiometry,Pioneer Venus
probes, 144
infrared interferometer spectrometer
(IRIS), 421–422, 426
infrared radiation, from extrasolar
planets, 899
infrared reflection spectra,
high-resolution, 450
Infrared Space Observatory(ISO)
thermal infrared operational, 684
instruments for measurements
Mars, spacecraft landing sites
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer,
332
Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer,
332
Imager for Mars Pathfinder, 332
Microscopic Imager, 332
Miniature Thermal Emission
Spectrometer, 332
Mössbauer Spectrometer, 332
Orbiter Laser Altimeter, 333
Panorama Camera, 332
Rock Abrasion Tool, 332
Rosettamission, ALICE ultraviolet
instrument, 660–661
SOHOLasco coronagraph, 106, 217
interior Earth objects (IEOs), 283interiors, of planets, inferences, 846–848
International Astronomical Union (IAU),
293–294
Internet database, Centaur/KBO
objects, 606
International Seismological Centre, 201
International Space Station
EUV radiation/geomagnetic storms,
223
solar energetic particle exposure, 224
space radiation hazard, 224
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
Io observations, 422
ultraviolet auroral emissions, Jupiter,
643, 647
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
spectra
of Halley’s comet, 571
of Venus day side/night side, 663
interplanetary coronal mass ejections
(ICME)
aka fast CME, 108
characteristics, 108–109
closed field nature, 109
field line draping, 109–110
identification in solar wind plasma, 108
magnetic field topology, 109
magnetic flux balance, 109
interplanetary dust, 630
evolution in interplanetary space,
634–635
flux radial profile, 629
Giacobini-Zimmer comet, 630
Grigg-Skjellerup comet, 630
Halley’s comet, 630
impact detectors, 628
Kuiper Belt, 630
lunar microcraters, 627
mutual high-speed collisions, 633
penetration detectors, 628
Pioneer 8/9experiments, 629
Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 comet,
630
in situ dust detectors, 627
thermal wavelengths, 685
Wild 2 comet, 630
interplanetary dust particles (IDPs),
33–34
interplanetary space
dust evolution, 634–635
dust fluxes, comets, 630
interstellar dust
in heliosphere, 631
production, 686
interstellar grains, in meteorites,
273–275
Io satellite, Jupiter, 369, 370, 449
atmosphere, 421, 428–429
aurora, 420