| Description |
xv, 452 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-437) and index. |
| Contents |
Changing Views and Fundamental Concepts: Evolving perspectives - a historical prologue -- The new, close-up view from space -- The invisible buffer zone with space - atmospheres, magnetospheres and the solar wind -- The Inner System - Rocky Worlds: Third rock from the Sun - restless Earth -- The Moon: stepping stone to the planets -- Mercury: a dense battered world -- Venus: the veiled planet -- Mars: the red planet -- The Giant Planets, Their Satellites and Their Rings - Worlds of Liquid, Ice and Gas: Jupiter: a giant primitive planet -- Saturn: lord of the rings -- Uranus and Neptune -- Remnants of Creation - Small Worlds in the Solar System: Comets -- Asteroids and meteorites -- Colliding worlds. |
| Subject |
Solar system.
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| ISBN |
0521813069 (hardback) |
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