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.

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Astronomy.


Solar system.
Outer space.

QB501 / .W55 2009