| Description |
xiv, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-265) and index. |
| Contents |
Surface and interior. Tallest mountain : Olympus Mons ; Coldest volcanoes : cryovolcanoes ; A truly "grand" canyon : Valles Marineris ; Movers and shakers : plate tectonics ; Ooh! That'll leave a mark : extreme impact craters -- Oceans & water & ice, oh my! Deepest ocean : Europa ; Best surf spot : Earth ; Biggest ice cubes : Saturn's icy moons ; Jekyll and Hyde of the solar system : dirty, icy comets ; The sky is falling! : dry ice caps of Mars -- Wild, wild weather. Longest-lived storm : Jupiter's great red spot ; An ill and still wind bloweth : hurricanes on Earth ; Wildly wicked winds of Neptune ; Best vacuum cleaner : Martian dust devils ; The hardest rain : diamond hail on Uranus and Neptune -- Extreme climates. Biggest, baddest babies of climate : El Ni̋no and La Ni̋na ; But it's a dry heat : runaway greenhouse of Venus ; Dirtiest climate change : global dust storms on Mars ; Most bizarre seasons : Uranus ; Snowballs in hell : Mercury -- Rings and things. Those lovely rings : Saturn ; Billions and billions of bodies : the Oort cloud ; When comets attack : Shoemaker-Levy ; The planet that wasn't : the asteroid belt ; Earth-shattering impact : birth of our moon? -- Electro magneto to extremo. Supertwisted magnet : our sun ; Blowing a bubble in space : the solar wind ; Biggest plasma screen : Jupiter's magnetosphere ; Most radical electric light shows : Auroras on Earth and Jupiter ; Shocking superbolts of Saturn -- Life. Juuust right! : Earth's abundant life ; Death from above : The K-T extinction ; Life from above : alien origins ; Little green...microbes? : possible life on Mars ; Life in the dark ; Earth & Europa? -- The wack pack. Stinkiest place : the rotten egg of Io ; Best fuel depot : Titan ; Problematic planethood : Pluto ; Most retro : Venus & Triton ; Most misinterpreted "artifact" : the face on Mars ; One-eyed monster and the hex of Saturn ; FrankenMoon : Miranda ; As sure as sunrise? : Hyperion's chaotic rotation ; The incredible shrinking planet : Mercury ; A perfect fit : solar eclipses on Earth ; Strangest life-form : humans -- Sum of extreme parts. Supreme sun ; Giant Jupiter ; Sexy Saturn ; Extreme Earth. |
| Subject |
Solar system -- Miscellanea.
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Extreme environments.
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| Added Author |
Ratcliff, Todd, 1967-
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| Added Title |
Fifty most extreme places in our solar system |
| ISBN |
9780674049987 alkaline paper $27.95 |
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0674049985 alkaline paper |
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