num_pages: 48
description: Planetary Exploration is a series of six books about our solar system based on the latest scientific data. Written by experts in the field of astronomy, the informative, up-to-date texts complement the powerful, atmospheric paintings of Don Davis, who uses as his source the most recent NASA photographs and scientific findings. Together, the artist's vivid interpretations and the authoritative texts convey, much more than mere facts and photographs, the fascination of discovery.The distant planets describes the occupants of the deep-freeze regions of the outer solar system. Uranus, with its exceptionally tilted axis and bands of soft clouds, Neptune, a cold, dimly-lit world with towering cumulus clouds, and tiny Pluto, only one-quarter the size of our Moon, are graphically portrayed by Don Davis. Recent exploration has increased our understanding of these far-off depths of space and the latest data from Voyager and Pioneer probes has enabled the artist to take us across the Milky Way, journeying the comets to the edge of the galaxy.
language: English
title: The Distant Planets
titlecomplete: The Distant Planets (Planetary Exploration )
publisher: Facts on File