Worlds fantastic, worlds familiar
Subtitle: a guided tour of the solar system
By: Bonnie J. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781107152748
Subjects: Astrogeology; Popular works; Planetary science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mercury : the hottest little place; title: Venus : an even hotter place; title: Mars : the abode of life?; title: Asteroids and comets : sweat the small stuff; title: Galileo's treasures : worlds of fire and ice; title: Enceladus : an active iceball in space; title: Titan : an Earth in deep freeze?; title: Iapetus and its friends : the weirdest "planets" in the solar system; title: Pluto : the first view of the "third zone"; title: Earths above : the search for exoplanets and life in the universe.