Written in the style of a traveller's guide book, the authors take you on an interplanetary cruise describing each body in detail. The book runs from the largest (the Sun) to the smallest objects (comets and tiny asteroids) in the solar system. The illustrations are either photos from spacecraft that have visited the various planets and moons, or are hypothetical paintings based on what the sur…
Pop-ups, NASA photos, and up-to-date information about the solar system.
A science book about Earth and our Solar System.
A science book about the solar system.
The Artic region of Canada is home to a huge depression in the earth called the Haughton Crater. A group of explorers has come to the area to explore the challenges expected when traveling to Mars. What challenges will they experience? What preparations are being made for a trip to Mars here on Earth?
This book looks at how the sun dominates the solar system, affecting conditions on each of the planets and keeping them and other bodies in orbit around itself. It describes how the sun was formed and examines its structure and characteristics and asks what the future holds for the sun and the solar system.
What the sun made of? How did astronauts get to the Moon and what did they find there? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more about what's out in space