Геология Марса

Исследование геологических процессов, происходящих на Марсе, опирается на интерпретацию снимков и других данных, передаваемых зондами, беспилотными орбитальными и посадочными аппаратами. Эта интерпретация основывается на наших знаниях о процессах, происходящих на Земле, поэтому земные аналоговые исследования играют важную роль в понимании геологических особенностей, наблюдаемых на Марсе. Это первая книга, в которой проводится прямое сравнение между местами действия на Земле и Марсе и приводятся работы ведущих планетарных геологов, в которых показываются сходства и различия между этими соседними планетами.

With the prospect of a manned mission to Mars still a long way in the future, research into the geological processes operating there continues to rely on interpretation of images and other data returned by unmanned orbiters, probes, and landers. Such interpretations are necessarily based

on our knowledge of processes occurring on Earth. Terrestrial analog studies therefore play an important role in understanding the origin of geological features observed on Mars.

This book presents contributions from leading planetary geologists to demonstrate the parallels and differences between these two neighboring planets, and to provide a deeper understanding of the evolution of the Solar System. Mars is characterized by a wide range of

geological phenomena that also occur on Earth, including tectonic, volcanic, impact cratering, aeolian, fluvial, glacial, and possibly lacustrine and marine processes. This is the first book to present direct comparisons between locales on Earth and Mars and to provide terrestrial

analogs for newly acquired data sets from Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers, and Mars Express.

The results of these analog studies provide new insights into the role of different processes in the geological evolution of Mars. This book will therefore be a key reference for students and researchers of planetary science. MARY CHAPMAN is a research geologist with the Astrogeology Team at the United States

Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is also the Director and Science Advisor for the NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility there. Her research interests center on volcanism and its interactions with ice and other fluids, and she has a keen interest in the development of future

robotic and human exploration of the Solar System.