Traveler's Guide to the Solar System - Couverture rigide

Barnes-Svarney, Patricia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0806986727 ISBN 13 : 9780806986722

Editeur : Sterling, 1993

Synopsis

Using pictures and data from spacecraft and Earth telescopes, this guide introduces the nine planets and numerous moons of our solar system. Mercury, the clouds of Saturn and the wild volcanoes on Jupiter's Moon, Io, are all examined.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What would it be like to walk on a Martian plain? Watch wild volcanoes on Jupiter? All it takes to find out is a touch of imagination and this entertaining guide to the solar system, illustrated with NASAs most up-to-date colour photographs. So get ready to blast off, and fly through the skies from Mercury to Pluto, stopping to visit planets, asteroids, and moons along the way. Feel Venuss intense pressure and heat, thanks to a thick blanket of carbon dioxide. Alight on Saturn and gaze at its beautiful and mysterious rings. See greenish-blue Uranus, which takes 84 Earth-years to travel round the sun. Theres lots of fun information, related in a simple, appealing style that children will easily understand and enjoy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sterling
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806986727
• ISBN 13: 9780806986722
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible