Surfaces, atmospheres and magnetospheres of the outer planets and their satellites and ring systems: Part Ⅷ

摘要

This issue includes research presented during the past year in sessions organized at several international meetings and congresses including the European Geosciences Union (ECU), the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), and the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) focused on recent observations and models of the atmospheres, magnetospheres and surfaces of the giant planets and their satellites, as well as on their ring systems. Special emphasis was placed on results from space missions such as the Cassini-Huygens mission in the Kronian System which has been continuously returning a wealth of data since 2004, revealing an astonishingly complex and dynamic system around Saturn. Galileo and even Voyager data are still used in some of the studies presented here, while complementary observations of the giant planets and their satellites were obtained from the ground, but also by the new space observatory Herschel, launched in 2009. Besides the observations, a paper in this issue discusses results from laboratory experiments and several from models.