Group 1 is choline, group 2 ...Figure 5.6. Structure of lipid layers. For a color version of this figure, see w...Figure 5.7. Diagram representing Carl Woese’s tree of life (1928–2012)Figure 5.8. Possibilities of life on Mars, Earth, and Venus. For a color version...Figure 5.9. The surface of Europa is covered with cracks, as shown in this image...Figure 5.10. Enceladus and two fragments of the rings of Saturn, seen backlit by...Figure 5.11. Cryovolcanism on the surface of Enceladus. Heated saltwater rises t...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
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