What is Planetary geology?
'''Planetary geology''' (or '''astrogeology''' or '''exogeology''') focuses on the [[geology]] of any [[astronomical object]] like a [[planet]], [[Satellite (natural)|moon]], [[asteroid]], [[comet]] or [[meteorite]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://marswatch.tn.cornell.edu/rsm.html |title=What is planetary geology? |publisher= James F. Bell III (Cornell University), Bruce A. Campbell (Smithsonian Institution), Mark S. Robinson (U.S. Geological Survey) |access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol212/lectures/01.html |title=GEOL212: Planetary Geology Fall 2015 |publisher=University of Maryland Department of Geology |access-date=6 October 2015 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908134550/https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol212/lectures/01.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Planetary geologists study many topics. Some of these include the inner structure of the [[terrestrial planet|terrestrial planets]], [[volcanism]] on planets, [[crater|craters]], [[fluvial]] and [[eolian processes|aeolian processes]]. The planets will not solve all our problems. For example, we are running out of [[oil]]. That's vital for us today, and we may have to make it artificially, because we are running out of it. Oil is made by living things which (as far as we know) have no parallel elsewhere in the [[Solar System]]. However, there is a possibility of hydrocarbons on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], one of the moons of [[Saturn]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{authority control}} [[Category:subfields of geology]]