Lewis J.S., Prinn R.G. Planets and Their Atmospheres: Origin and Evolution

International Geophysics Series, 1983, Volume 33. Academic Press, New York, London, 1983. – 480 pp.
The past 20 years have seen an explosive growth in our knowledge of the solar system. Both Earth-based observational techniques (radio, radar, and high-resolution infrared spectroscopy) and spacecraft missions (reaching Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and en route to Uranus and Neptune) have provided vast stores of data quantitatively far superior to any prior information and often qualitatively different from any observations resulting from remote sensing. At present, there is a pause in the pace of the spacecraft missions to the planets. Our store of planetary data has been extensively studied, and new observational discoveries have become much less frequent. This is an ideal time for a summary of our present understanding of planetary atmospheres, including the planetary-scale and solar-system-scale processes that give rise to atmospheres and oceans, that cause them to evolve, and that deplete them.
This book is intended to be appropriate for the upper-division undergraduate or graduate student in any of the "neighbor sciences" germane to the study of planetary evolution and the behavior of planetary atmospheres (geology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, meteorology).Retention of Volatiles by Planets
Evolutionary Processes
The Atmospheres of the Planets
Conclusions