The numerous idealizations that are involved in the exact microscopic statistical description of complex (dusty) plasmas discussed detail. two prevailing approaches Klimontovich dusty reviewed a pedagogical manner. continuous phase space approximation is introduced, within which more rigorous treatment should collapse to heuristic treatment. plasma equations shown be identical, but there marked...

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The Mars Pathfinder atmospheric structure investigation/meteorology (ASI/MET) experiment measured the vertical density, pressure, and temperature structure of the martian atmosphere from the surface to 160 km, and monitored surface meteorology and climate for 83 sols (1 sol = 1 martian day = 24.7 hours). The atmospheric structure and the weather record are similar to those observed by the Vikin...

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those in protostellar clouds, planetary rings or cometary environments, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of the inter-particle potential energy to the average kinetic energy is high enough the particles will form either a “liquid” structure with short-range ordering or a crystalline structure with long range ordering. Man...

We report on analytical and simulat n studies of mi ophy processes that trigger phase transitions in a dusty plasma subject to ion streaming. For res below the critica ure Pc for condensation, the grains acquire a large random kinetic energy and form a we upled fluid. P is increased to greater than Pc, the grains lose their kinetic energy and reach a strongly coupled crystal e state. The ust he...