ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at landscapes on terrestrial-type planets and their satellites, some of which are like Earth landscapes, others of which have distinctly alien aspects. It shows that landscapes on all solid bodies in the Solar System are subject to three basic forces: cosmogenic, endogenic, and exogenic. It explains that, apart from incoming solar energy, the chief cosmogenic forces involve the impact of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids, which produce craters; that endogenic forces create volcanic and tectonic landforms; and that exogenic forces, such as water, ice, and wind, affect the planets and their satellites, producing features on some of them, Mars included, that are analogous to fluvial, glacial, periglacial, and aeolian features on Earth. The chapter concludes by stressing the care needed when comparing homegrown and exotic landscapes, due to the temperature regimes and fluids involved being in some cases vastly different.
