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A Field Guide to the Planets

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<p>Explore planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and so much more with an expert guide who will show you the most cutting-edge images and research—and what the future of space exploration could be.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: How the Solar System Family Is Organized
  • 02: Mercury, the Extreme Little Planet
  • 03: Venus, the Veiled Greenhouse Planet
  • 04: Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life
  • 05: Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere
  • 06: Exploring the Earth-Moon System
  • 07: Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story
  • 08: Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground
  • 09: Water on Mars and Prospects for Life
  • 10: Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt
  • 11: Mighty Jupiter, The Ruling Gas Giant
  • 12: Jupiter’s Planetlike System of Moons
  • 13: Saturn and the Rings: Gravity’s Masterpiece
  • 14: Saturn’s Moons: Titan to Enceladus
  • 15: Uranus: A Water World on Its Side
  • 16: Neptune: Windy with the Wildest Moon
  • 17: Pluto and Charon: The Binary Worlds
  • 18: Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud
  • 19: How Our Sun Defines Our Solar System
  • 20: A Solar System Time Machine and Meteorites
  • 21: What the Biggest Exoplanets Reveal
  • 22: Closing in on Earthlike Exoplanets
  • 23: Planets Migrated in Our Early Solar System!
  • 24: Human Futures in the Solar System
  • By This Professor

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Sabine Stanley

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