提坦：探索似地球的世界/TITAN: THE EARTH-LIKE MOON
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作者： Athena Coustenis 等著
出 版 社： 东南大学出版社
出版时间： 1999-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 330印刷时间： 1999/10/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 铜版纸I S B N ： 9789810239213包装： 精装编辑推荐
Compiles an overview of current understanding of all aspects of Titan, at a comprehensive and scientific level, in terms basic enough to be accessible to the nonspecialist.
目录
Prolegomena
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Early history
1.2 Titan in mythology
1.3 The 20th century, before Voyager
1.4 Titan in the Space Age
1.5 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 2: Observations of Titan
2.1Introduction: space exploration of our Solar System
2.2Space missions to the Saturnian system
2.2.1Pioneer ll: first to Saturn
2.2.2The Voyager missions
2.2.3Results from Voyager: an overview
2.2.4The Cassini-Huygens mission
2.3 Space observatories
2.3.1The Hubble Space Telescope （HST）
2.3.2The Next Generation Space Telescope （NGST）
2.3.3The infrared space observatory （ISO）
2.4 Ground-based observatories
2.4.1The Mauna Kea observatories
2.4.2 The European Southern observatories
2.4.3The IRAM Telescope and Radio Astronomy
2.4.4The Very Large Array
2.4.5Other observatories
2.5 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 3: Atmospheric Physics and Thermal Structure
3.1Physical aspects of a substantial atmosphere
3.1.1Definitions
3.1.2 Thermal structure and nomenclature
3.1.3Troposphere
3.1.4 Stratosphere
3.1.5 Mesosphere
3.1.6 Thermosphere
3.1.7 Exosphere
3.2Atmospheric radiative transfer
3.2.1Solar radiation
3.2.2 Thermal radiation
3.2.3Energy balance and surface temperature
3.2.4Atmospheric temperature profile
3.3Atmospheric observations
3.3.1Remote temperature sounding
3.3.2 Vertical resolution
3.4Measurements of Titan's atmospheric temperature
3.4.1The lower atmosphere
3.4.2Energy balance and the temperature profilein the thermosphere
3.4.3Stellar occultation
3.5Titan's ionosphere
3.6Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 4: Chemistry and Composition
4.1Stratospheric composition and variations
4.1.1Analysis of the Voyager infrared data
4.1.2Seventeen years after Voyager, the ISO looks at
4.1.3Ground-based observations of the atmosphere
4.2Interpreting molecular abundances
4.2.1Oxygen-bearing molecules: CO, CO2 and H2O
4.2.2Argon
4.2.3Deuterium: CH3D and D/H ratio
4.3Photochemistry
4.3.1Hydrocarbons
4.3.2 Nitriles
4.3.3Oxygen compounds
4.3.4Condensation efficiencies
4.3.5Aerosol production
4.4 Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 5: Aerosols and Condensates
Chapter 6: Atmospheric Dynamics and Meteorology
Chapter 7: The Surface and Interior of Titan
Chapter 8: Titan in the solar system
Chapter 9: Cassini and Huygens:Orbiting Saturn and Landing on Titan
Chapter 10: Epilogue
References and Bibliography
