What is astrogeology?
Astrogeology is like Earth's science, but for other bodies in our solar system. The field is sometimes called planetary geology, exogeology or xenogeology. For the scientific study of other planets, there is much less data, as it is for Earth, but it does not prevent scientists from attempting to conclude them.
Field astrogeology has specific names for the study of each body in the solar system: heliology for the study of the sun, hermeology for mercury, cyterology for Venus, selenology for the moon, area for Mars, zenology for Jupiter, chronologists for Saturn, uranology, uranium, uranium, uranium. Astrogeology also includes the study of comets and asteroids. Field creation is usually attributed to Eugene Shoemaker, prominent astronomer and geologist. Some astrogeological studies receive funds from American geological survey and groups related to space such as NASA. Astrogeology Research Program was founded in 1961 as a subgroup of American geological survey, forEugene Shoemaker was the first director.
Every body in the solar system has scientifically interesting geological features that have been uncovered over the years by observing binoculars and data returned by cosmic probes. For example, the pockets of frozen ice were discovered on permanently shaded craters on an extremely hot planet mercury. The Mercury core has undergone the phase of the rapid cooling of billions of years, causing the bark to return. These wrinkles are called scarves. Due to its proximity to the Sun, Mercury has the largest tidal bulges, physical distortion caused by the sun, all planets in the solar system.
ninety percent of the surface of Venus is covered with basalt lava, a testimony of its heavy volcanic past. The planet has two highlands, like Continents, with mountains higher than Mt. Everest.
Mars, one of the planets that most consumes public imagination has its clear wormThe color of the abundance of iron oxide on its surface. Olympus Mons, 27 km high (16.8 million), it is the highest known mountain throughout the solar system. It is known that Mars once had water on its surface and depicted a number of channels and large frozen ice caps.
The above three paragraphs are just a small slice of the sum of astrogeological knowledge that our scientists are aware of. Scientists still discover other geological features on every planet all the time and the field has a great growth in front of us, as we continue to investigate astral bodies immediately around us. Astrogeology can be considered as a parental science of the country's sciences.