Water in the Solar System

Over the past half century, numerous research space missions have been launched to explore various objects in the Solar System, primarily to find surface or subsurface water or water ice (in particular, to discover extraterrestrial oceans or their traces and to study their evolution in light of Eart...

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Published inPhysics Uspekhi Vol. 61; no. 8; pp. 779 - 792
Main Authors Litvak, M L, Sanin, A B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, Russian Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing 01.08.2018
IOP Publishing
Subjects
Aridity
giant planets and their moons
Oceans
Solar System
Space missions
Terrestrial planets
Water
water ice
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Summary:Over the past half century, numerous research space missions have been launched to explore various objects in the Solar System, primarily to find surface or subsurface water or water ice (in particular, to discover extraterrestrial oceans or their traces and to study their evolution in light of Earth's hydrospheric history). This paper briefly reviews the subject with an emphasis on the terrestrial planets to find out why it is that, while liquid water oceans once formed and still exist on Earth, the surfaces of other planets turned into arid deserts. Also reviewed are issues related to the origin and observation of water ice in the outer part of the Solar System. A list of important problems related to the water origin and spreading in the Solar System is presented.
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ISSN:1063-7869
1468-4780
DOI:10.3367/UFNe.2017.04.038277