GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A planetary geologist is someone who studies how other planets (and moons and asteroids and comets and whatever else is floating out there) form and evolve over time. We use what we have learned about how the Earth works to try to understand how other bodies work.

Detailed explanation-2: -Planetary scientists work to improve our understanding of the planets, satellites and smaller bodies in the solar system through: Studying the atmospheres, surfaces and interiors of planets, Understanding the origins of planets and the physical processes at work, and.

Detailed explanation-3: -Planetary geology is the way researchers study the cratering, weather, volcanoes, and other processes that shape worlds in the Solar System.

Detailed explanation-4: -Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Part of Hall of Planet Earth. The Scottish naturalist James Hutton (1726-1797) is known as the father of geology because of his attempts to formulate geological principles based on observations of rocks.