Solar System: majorconcepts, planets, satellites, asteroids, meteorites and comets; formation and internal differentiation of the planets; general features of Terrestrial and Jovian planets.

Planetary atmospheres; exo- and endogenic processes associated with origin and internal evolution of planets-planetary volcanism, craters, impactcratering processes, elemental composition; mineralogy and petrology; thermal, seismic and magnetic properties, and chronological techniques.

Earth as a reference material; geology and geophysics of terrestrial planets: mars, venus and mercury; comparative planetology of Jupiter, Uranus and Saturn and their satellites; physical properties, composition, mineralogy and petrology of the airlessrocky bodies: the Moon and its Terrestrial Analogues, Io, Phobos and Deimos, minor bodies such as asteroids, comets, meteor, meteoroid and meteorites.

Past, Present and future planetary exploration mission

Same as Reference

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3.    Lewis, J.S., Physics and Chemistry ofthe Solar System, Academic Press
4.    Hartmann, W.K., Moons &Planets, Wadsworth Publishing Company