The Plasma Environment of Venus, Mars and Titan

Karoly Szego earned his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Physics from Roland Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, while also working at the university as a Professor until 1998.  He is currently the science advisor of KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest.  Dr. Szego is a member and on the board of trustees of the International Academy of Astronautics, and was a member of the advisory board of the International Space Science Institute (1996 – 2002).  He is also the recipient of the Diploma for International Cooperation, NASA (1982), the State Prize of Hungary (1986) and the Zoltan Bay award (2007).

The plasma environment of Venus, Mars, and Titan, an introduction.- Upstream of Venus and Mars.- Upstream of Saturn and Titan.- Recent results from Titan's ionosphere.- The induced magnetospheres of Mars, Venus, and Titan.- Ion energization and escape on Mars and Venus.- Exospheres and energetic neutral atoms.- Modeling of Venus, Mars, and Titan.- Ion acceleration and outflow from Mars and Venus, an overview.- Titan, an overview.