Exploring our solar system
By: Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy
Contributors: O'Shaughnessy, Tam E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publisher
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780375812040
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Planets
Description: Describes what we have learned about our solar system from telescopes and spacecraft, focusing on the characteristics of the planets and their moons.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The solar system: an overview; title: The sun; title: The terrestrial planets; title: Mercury; title: Venus; title: Earth; title: The moon; title: Mars; title: The asteroid belt; title: Venus, earth, and mars; title: why are they so different?; title: The giant planets; title: Jupiter; title: Saturn; title: Uranus; title: Neptune; title: The Kuiper belt; title: Pluto.