"From weather forecasting to exploring the solar system". This book deals with atmospheric forecast models, global warming, atmospheric aerosols, the urban boundary layer, automobile catalytic converters, Antarctic and Greenland atmospheric archives, the monitoring of stratospheric constituents, the Earth-moon interaction, the sun and its aeronomical effects, the mesosphere and thermosphere, the exploration of the solar system by ESA, climate and life on Mars, the giant planets, the Cassini/Huyghens and Rosetta space missions, and the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. This new volume will provide a wide range of readers with up to date information on these subjects which are at the forefront of current science.