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The Chemistry of Mars

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Inamuddin
  • Language: English

The Chemistry of Mars focuses on the chemical exploration of Mars, with diverse viewpoints on the future of Mars research in terms of terrestrial missions. The holistic view of Mar… Read more

Description

The Chemistry of Mars focuses on the chemical exploration of Mars, with diverse viewpoints on the future of Mars research in terms of terrestrial missions. The holistic view of Mars’s chemistry is elucidated through a full scale picture of current knowledge and future intentions and explorations, including a review of temperature, surface pressure, wind, dust-cover, water-ice, and CO2 surface ice. This book provides a dedicated resource for space and planetary scientists, astrochemists, and chemists looking beyond Earth applications, including students, academics, and professionals.

Key features

  • Provides a complete overview of the chemistry of Mars, including surface, atmosphere, and compositional elements
  • Covers a broad range of topics, including Mars's temperature, surface pressure, wind, dust cover, water ice, and CO2 surface ice
  • Explores the topic with a future-focused approach that covers current debate and discussion topics

Readership

Academic personnel, researchers, advanced students and postgraduate students working on the topic of Mars in general or with regard to its chemistry and potential missions to Mars

Table of contents

1. The existence of the red planet in the universe

2. Mars explorations

3. Geological past of Mars

4. Environmental analysis of Mars

5. Climate on Mars Chemical sciences investigation

6. Detailed mapping of Mars's crust

7. Knowing the role of water on Mars

8. Chemistry of volatiles on Mars

9. Salts derived from chemical alterations of primary minerals

10. Phyllosilicates and their role in the preservation of organic compounds

11. Aqueous mineralogy: an emphasis on clays and carbonates on Mars

12. Origin and preservation of organics on Mars

13. Chlorine and related compounds on Mars

14. Organic characterization of Mars

15. Salt accumulations on Mars

16. Evaluation of volcanoes and plate tectonics of Mars

17. Bright and dark dunes of Mars

18. Ice-like combinations of carbon dioxide and water clathrates

19. Influence of ultraviolet radiations on Mars

20. Spectrum of elemental distribution over Mars

21. Assessment of atmospheric methane and other components of Mars

22. Diversity of valleys, streams, lakes on crust of Mars

23. Chemical reactivities of Martian soil

24. Dust storms on Mars surface Mars future expeditions

25. Searching life at Mars

26. Role of technology in investigating Mars: past and present

27. Challenges for habitability on Mars

28. Engineering research and Martian spacecraft operations

29. 21st century Mars missions

30. For people of Earth beyond Mars

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Inamuddin

Dr. Inamuddin, is an Assistant professor at Department of Applied Chemistry, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of analytical chemistry, materials chemistry, electrochemistry, renewable energy and environmental science. He has worked on different research projects funded by various government agencies and universities and is the recipient of awards, including the Fast-Track Young Scientist Award and young researcher of the year award-2020 of the university. His current research interests include ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

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