This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earths gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere and astrobiology, Comet ionosphere, exoplanetary atmospheres and planet formation in binaries. By providing detailed theory and examples, this book helps readers to quickly familiarize themselves with the field. In addition, it offers a special section on next-generation planetary exploration, which opens a new landscape for future exploration plans and missions.

Prof. Shuanggen Jin works at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Nader Haghighipour works at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA. Prof. Wing-Huen Ip works at the National Central University, Taiwan.

Shuanggen Jin is Professor at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS. He received the B.Sc degree in Geodesy/Geomatics from Wuhan University in 1999 and the Ph.D degree in GNSS/Geodesy from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. From 2004 to 2010, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Australia University of New South Wales, Post-Doc and Senior Scientist at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Professor at the Korea University of Science and Technology, Research Fellow at the Center for Space Research of University of Texas at Austin, USA. His main research areas include Satellite Navigation& GNSS Sensing, Remote Sensing& Climate Change, and Space/Planetary Sensing& Dynamics as well as soft/hardware development for wide applications. He has over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers in JGR, IEEE, EPSL, GJI, J. Geodesy etc., 5 books or monographs, over 15 chapters/issues and more than 100 proceeding papers with more than 500 citations by Nature and other publications. He has been President of the International Association of Planetary Sciences (IAPS) (2013-2015), President of the IAG Sub-Commission 2.6 (2011-2015), Chair of the IAG SG 4.1 (2007-2011), Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. Geosci.(2010-), Associate Editor-in-Chief of Sate. Navig.(2013-), Editor of J. Geod. Sci. (2010-), Editor of Positioning (2010-), Editor of J. GIS 2010-), Editor of Int. J. Info. Eng.(2013-), Guest Editor of Adv. Space Res. (2009-), Guest Editor of J. Geodynamics (2012-), Member of many international program Committees and Convener/Chair of many international conferences or sessions (AGU, EGU, IAG, IEEE, AOGS, ION...) as well as Reviewer for various international journals, proceedings and proposals. He has received several awards/honors including Special Prize of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (2006), 100-Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010), Fellow of International Association of Geodesy (IAG) (2011), Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program (2011), Fu Chengyi Award of Chinese Geophysical Society (2012), Best reviewer of Advances in Space Research (ASR) (2012), and Second Prize of Hubei Science& Technology Progress Award (2012).

Partial Least Squares Modeling of Lunar surface Iron content.- Quantitative characterization of Lunar Mare Orientale basalts detected by M3.- Gravity changes over Russian rivers basins from GRACE.- Gravimetric forward and inverse modeling methods of the crustal density structures.- Radar Exploration of Mars.- Automatic recognition of impact craters on the Martian surface.- Upper Ionosphere of Mars during Solar Quiet and Disturbed conditions.- Mars Astrobiology - Recent Status and Progresses.- Classical physics for why planets and the Sun rotate by their periods.- Estimates of the Size of the Ionosphere of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during Its Perihelion Passage in 2014/2015.- Photometric and spectroscopic observations of exoplanet transit events.- Photochemistry of Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres.- Planet formation in Binaries.