Worlds fantastic, worlds familiar : a guided tour of the solar system / Bonnie J. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
A senior planetary astronomer leads this personal tour of NASA's latest Solar System discoveries.
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[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Mercury : the hottest little place
- Venus : an even hotter place
- Mars : the abode of life?
- Asteroids and comets : sweat the small stuff
- Galileo's treasures : worlds of fire and ice
- Enceladus : an active iceball in space
- Titan : an Earth in deep freeze?
- Iapetus and its friends : the weirdest "planets" in the solar system
- Pluto : the first view of the "third zone"
- Earths above : the search for exoplanets and life in the universe.