Probing the new solar system /
Wilkinson, John.
Probing the new solar system / John Wilkinson. - ix, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why a new solar system? -- Exploring the planets -- The sun -- Mercury: a hot, old world -- Venus: a hot, cloudy planet -- Earth: a watery, living world -- Mars: the red planet -- The asteroid belt -- Jupiter: the gas giant -- Saturn: the ringed planet -- Uranus: the blue, icy planet -- Neptune: an icy, cold world -- Trans-Neptunian objects -- Overview and the future.
9780643095755 0643095756
Astronomy.
Solar system.
Outer space.
QB501 / .W55 2009
Probing the new solar system / John Wilkinson. - ix, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why a new solar system? -- Exploring the planets -- The sun -- Mercury: a hot, old world -- Venus: a hot, cloudy planet -- Earth: a watery, living world -- Mars: the red planet -- The asteroid belt -- Jupiter: the gas giant -- Saturn: the ringed planet -- Uranus: the blue, icy planet -- Neptune: an icy, cold world -- Trans-Neptunian objects -- Overview and the future.
9780643095755 0643095756
Astronomy.
Solar system.
Outer space.
QB501 / .W55 2009