Preface for the article collection “High-Pressure Earth and Planetary Science in the last and next decade”
- Keywords:
- High Pressure, Early Earth, Magma, Fluid, Mantle, Core, Synchrotron X-ray
Understanding formations, evolutions and interiors of terrestrial planets and moons is an important research target. Advances in seismological techniques enable us to image the detailed inner structure of the Earth. Dramatic technological developments can provide new observation data about not only the Earth but also the others. Several planetary exploration missions are in progress (e.g., BepiColombo for Mercury; InSight for Mars), and we’ll obtain the updated information of planets in the near future. In order to interpret the observation, high-pressure data of planetary materials (silicate minerals as crust and mantle, iron alloys as core) are required.