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Planetary science

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NT1 ↓ Atmospheric science ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Aeronomy
- NT2 ↓ Atmospheric effects ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ Seasonal phenomena
  - NT3 ↓ Sky brightness ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ Night sky brightness ►
    - NT4 ↓ Twilight
NT1 ↓ Extrasolar planet detection
NT1 ↓ Impact phenomena
NT1 ↓ Interplanetary physics ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Cometary studies ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ Comet interiors
  - NT3 ↓ Cometary atmospheres
  - NT3 ↓ Cometary ionospheres
  - NT3 ↓ Dirty snowball theory
- NT2 ↓ Corotating streams
- NT2 ↓ Interplanetary discontinuities
- NT2 ↓ Interplanetary particle acceleration
- NT2 ↓ Interplanetary shocks
- NT2 ↓ Interplanetary turbulence
- NT2 ↓ Meteor showers ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ Meteor radiants
- NT2 ↓ Meteorite composition
- NT2 ↓ Pickup ions
- NT2 ↓ Planetary bow shocks
- NT2 ↓ Solar cycle variations
- NT2 ↓ Solar energetic particles
- NT2 ↓ Solar wind termination
NT1 ↓ Planetary alignment
NT1 ↓ Planetary atmospheres ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Atmospheric tides
- NT2 ↓ Earth atmosphere ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ Atmospheric circulation
  - NT3 ↓ Atmospheric tides
  - NT3 ↓ Clouds ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus castellanus
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus fibratus
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus floccus
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus spissatus
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus uncinus
    - NT4 ↓ Cirrus vertebratus
    - NT4 ↓ Noctilucent clouds
  - NT3 ↓ Exosphere ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ Geocorona
  - NT3 ↓ Greenhouse gases ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ Carbon dioxide
    - NT4 ↓ Chlorofluorocarbons
    - NT4 ↓ Methane
    - NT4 ↓ Nitrous oxide
    - NT4 ↓ Water vapor
  - NT3 ↓ Humidity
  - NT3 ↓ Ionosphere ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ D layer
    - NT4 ↓ E layer
    - NT4 ↓ F layer
  - NT3 ↓ Land-atmosphere interactions
  - NT3 ↓ Magnetosphere ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ Plasmapause
    - NT4 ↓ Van Allen radiation belt
  - NT3 ↓ Mesopause
  - NT3 ↓ Mesosphere
  - NT3 ↓ Ocean-atmosphere interactions
  - NT3 ↓ Ozone layer
  - NT3 ↓ Stratopause
  - NT3 ↓ Stratosphere
  - NT3 ↓ Thermosphere
  - NT3 ↓ Tropopause
  - NT3 ↓ Troposphere
- NT2 ↓ Planetary boundary layers
- NT2 ↓ Scale height
- NT2 ↓ Stratopause
- NT2 ↓ Upper atmosphere
- NT2 ↓ Water vapor
NT1 ↓ Planetary structure ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Hydrosphere
- NT2 ↓ Lithosphere
- NT2 ↓ Mantle
- NT2 ↓ Oblateness
- NT2 ↓ Planetary cores
- NT2 ↓ Planetary interior
- NT2 ↓ Planetary polar regions
- NT2 ↓ Plate tectonics
- NT2 ↓ Polar caps
- NT2 ↓ Volcanoes
NT1 ↓ Planetary system formation ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Planet formation
- NT2 ↓ Protoplanetary disks ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ Planetesimals
- NT2 ↓ Solar system formation
NT1 ↓ Planetary theory
NT1 ↓ Satellite formation
NT1 ↓ Solar-planetary interactions ►▼
- NT2 ↓ Solar-terrestrial interactions

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