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Solar System, Inner

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The inner solar system is the region of the solar system that stretches between the Sun and the asteroid belt. It contains the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (in order of distance to the Sun), as well as the Earth’s Moon and Phobos and Deimos, which orbit Mars. In addition, the inner solar system is home to an unknown number of small bodies, asteroids, and comet nuclei. Furthermore, the inner solar system contains the habitable zone of our solar system.

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  1. Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR 8539, Université Paris 6, BP 99, 4 place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    François Forget

  2. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Planetenforschung, Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Tilman Spohn

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  1. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Amils

  2. Labo. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU), Floirac CX, France

    Muriel Gargaud

  3. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Inst. Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

    José Cernicharo Quintanilla

  4. Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Henderson James Cleaves

  5. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    William M. Irvine

  6. Dépt. Sc. de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Daniele Pinti

  7. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) DPI/E2U, Paris CX, France

    Michel Viso

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Forget, F., Spohn, T. (2014). Solar System, Inner. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_1464-2

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