SubjectThe Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
Revised edition of this classic reference
NEW EDITION
Kenneth R Lang
475 pages, 225 col & 200 b/w illus, 62 tabs.
Hardcover | 2011 | Edition: 2 | #189063 | ISBN-13: 9780521198578
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Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet
discoveries.
This second edition of a now classic reference is brought up to date with fascinating new discoveries from 12 recent Solar System missions. Examples include water on the Moon, volcanism on Mercury's previously unseen half, vast buried glaciers on Mars, geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus, lakes of hydrocarbons on Titan, encounter with asteroid Itokawa, and sample return from comet Wild 2.
The book is further enhanced by hundreds of striking new images of the planets and moons.
This second edition of a now classic reference is brought up to date with fascinating new discoveries from 12 recent Solar System missions. Examples include water on the Moon, volcanism on Mercury's previously unseen half, vast buried glaciers on Mars, geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus, lakes of hydrocarbons on Titan, encounter with asteroid Itokawa, and sample return from comet Wild 2.
The book is further enhanced by hundreds of striking new images of the planets and moons.
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