8 July 2021

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 Edition, Is Now Available

Richard Fienberg

Richard Fienberg AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force

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The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, in publication since 1973, covers significant developments in all areas of Earth and planetary sciences, from climate, environment, and geological hazards to the formation of planets and the evolution of life.

The 2021 edition, Vol. 49, edited by Katherine H. Freeman (Pennsylvania State University) and Raymond Jeanloz (University of California, Berkeley), is now available online and in print. Articles in this latest volume of particular interest to planetary scientists include these:

  • "Atmospheric Loss to Space and the History of Water on Mars" by Bruce M. Jakosky;
  • "Contemporary Liquid Water on Mars?" by James J. Wray;
  • "Geologically Diverse Pluto and Charon: Implications for the Dwarf Planets of the Kuiper Belt" by Jeffrey M. Moore and William B. McKinnon;
  • "Titan's Interior Structure and Dynamics After the Cassini-Huygens Mission" by Christophe Sotin, Klára Kalousová, and Gabriel Tobie; and
  • "A 2020 Observational Perspective of Io" by Imke de Pater, James T. Keane, Katherine de Kleer, and Ashley Gerard Davies.

View the Vol. 49 Table of Contents

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