Exploring Our Solar System

By - Ride, Sally , O'Shaughnessy, Tam E.

Floor - Floor 2

ISBN 10 - 0375812040

ISBN 13 - 9780375812040

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Solar system

Shelf No - 3

Call Number - 523.2 RID

Physical Description - 110 pages: illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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Five billion years ago, a starship passing through our region of space would not have slowed down for a second look. There was nothing to see. No Earth, no sun, no solar system. Nothing but a huge tenuous cloud of gas. Now, as the result of billions of years of evolution, and centuries of scientific research, we can chart our way through the solar system . . . with Sally Ride as our navigator. Starting from the sun and working outward, Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy take readers on a tour of the nine planets and explain the formation, current conditions, and possibility of life on each. Filled with crisp, full-color photographs and lucid prose, this comprehensive volume untangles the complexities of space and allows readers to feel like masters of the universe.

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