Exploring the solar system
Subtitle: a history with 22 activities
By: Mary Kay Carson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781556525933
Subjects: Astronomy -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature; Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature; Solar system -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes a field guide to the solar system and a time line.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prehistory-1900: spying on the heavens; title: 1900-1950s: rocketing to space; title: 1960s: racing to the moon, and beyond; title: 1970s: probing the planets; title: 1980s: voyage to the outer planets; title: 1990s: a telescope in space and a rover on Mars; title: 2000s: minor planets, major rings, and Martian seas; title: 2010s: going to extremes.