The Planets: A Journey Through the Solar System

Moving out from the Sun, every planet and moon is visited in a journey that takes us a full light year into space. This book follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of the Hugyens probe, and voyages to the edge of our solar system to discover the planets that lurk beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Featuring nearly 200 images, this book follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of the Hugyens probe, smashes into a comet with Deep Impact, and discovers the frozen planets that lurk at the edge of our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Identifies the similarities and differences in the processes of formation and evolution of various planets in the solar system.

This reference volume provides an up-to-date survey of the development of crusts on solid planets and satellites in the Solar System.

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. This book captures, in a series of questions, the essential scientific challenges that constitute the frontier of Earth science at the start of the 21st century.

Explores the data and discoveries that have contributed to a changed understanding of the Solar System, in particular the effect that a revised definition of a planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union had on this understanding. This book is suitable for people interested in Astronomy, both professional and amateur.

Explores the author's knowledge of the Moon's surface structure, its origins, its place in the general scheme of the Universe, and its close relationship with Earth.

Describes Mercury and talks about the professional astronomers who have observed the planet over the centuries, amateur observations, and the space missions to this extraordinary world.

The essential reference source for all astronomers and planetary scientists interested in our closest neighbour, Venus.