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Planetary Surfaces
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is planetary science.

Six Superlative Sources

-- SURFACES OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS (EXCLUDING EARTH) --

· Mercury, (F. Vilas, Ed.), University of Arizona Press, 1988

· Venus II, (S. Bougher, D. Hunten, and R. Philips, Eds.), University of Arizona Press, 1997.

· Mars, (H. Kieffer, B. Jakosky, C. Snyder, and M. Matthews, Eds.), University of Arizona Press, 1992

-- SURFACES OF PLANETARY SATELLITES --

· Satellites (J. Burns and M. Matthews, Eds.), University of Arizona Press, 1986.

-- REMOTE SENSING OF PLANETARY SURFACES --

· Remote Geochemical Analyses: Elemental and Mineralogical Composition, (C. Pieters and J. Englert, Eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1993.

· Brown, R. and Cruikshank, D., "Determination of the Composition and State of Surfaces in the Outer Solar System," Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 25, pp. 243-278 (1997).

Other Excellent Sources

-- SURFACES OF ASTEROIDS, COMETS, PLUTO AND KUIPER BELT OBJECTS --

· Asteroids II, (R. Binzel, T. Gehrels and M. Matthews, Eds.), University of Arizona Press, 1989.

· Comets, (L. Wilkening, Ed.), University of Arizona Press, 1982.

· Pluto and Charon, (A Stern and D. Tholen, Eds), University of Arizona Press, 1997.

· Jewitt, David, "The Kuiper Belt," Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 27, pp. 287-312 (1999).

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