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What are other planets like? Do they have air and clouds? Water and rocks? Could we walk on the moons of Saturn? Are there planets orbiting around other stars?
Using colorfully dramatic but scientifically accurate illustrations, as well as the latest spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope portraits of other worlds, Terence Dickinson answers these questions and more in Other Worlds, a fact- and fun-filled tour of the solar system's 9 planets, their 61 known moons and the suspected planets of other stars in our galaxy.
Stand on the rim of a Martian canyon, watch solar systems being born, visit a sulfur-spewing volcano on Jupiter's moon Io (pronounced EYE-oh), plunge into the red atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan and gaze at the swirling su! rface of a brown dwarf. Travel with award-winning astronomy writer Dickinson on this gigantic odyssey on Other Worlds, his latest book for young readers.
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Terence Dickinson is the best-selling author of Nightwatch and The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. More than one million of his previous titles are in print in three languages. He has received many national and international science awards including the New York Academy of Sciences Book of the Year Award and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Klumpke-Roberts Award for "excellence in communicating astronomy to the public." Previous recipients include Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.
Gr. 4^-8. This handy guide to the planets and major moons of the solar system features a more personal and enthusiastic voice than do most astronomy books. Acknowledging that sometimes children must "unlearn" before they can learn, Dickinson refers to a scene in The Empire Strikes Back in his description of an asteroid belt: "The hero, Han Solo, plunges his spaceship into the asteroids, jockeying it like a car in a demolition derby. But this image of asteroid belts as outer-space pinball machines, with craggy crater-pitted boulders jostling up against one another, is a total departure from reality." Excellent full-color photographs and paintings appear throughout the book, though it would have been helpful to indicate which was which in the captions, rather than to refer readers to the photo credits. Appendixes include a chronology of space exploration and charts comparing the planets and the moons. Carolyn Phelan
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- PublisherFirefly Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1895565715
- ISBN 13 9781895565713
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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