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Other Worlds: A Beginners Guide to Planets and Moons

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By Terence Dickinson
Publisher Firefly Books, Limited
Other Worlds: A Beginners Guide to Planets and Moons
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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 funfilled tour of the solar systems 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 sulfurspewing volcano on Jupiters moon Io (pronounced EYEoh), plunge into the red atmosphere of Saturns moon Titan and gaze at the swirling su! rface of a brown dwarf. Travel with awardwinning astronomy writer Dickinson on this gigantic odyssey on Other Worlds, his latest book for young readers.

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64 pages64 pages
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Hear it ingenious Hear it pulsar Hear it earthlike Hear it detectable Hear it planetesimal Hear it bantamweight Hear it balmy Hear it uranian Hear it deviate Hear it starlike Hear it foreseeable Hear it subsurface Hear it orangish Hear it preliminary Hear it thimbleful Hear it implode Hear it stratospheric Hear it prominent Hear it diffuse Hear it inhospitable Hear it cumbersome Hear it kilo Hear it coy Hear it retrograde Hear it sulfide Hear it excursion Hear it flyby Hear it primordial Hear it resonance Hear it adornment Hear it tenuous Hear it interchange Hear it refute Hear it afar Hear it overlaid Hear it porous Hear it perpetual Hear it circumstantial Hear it outermost Hear it aperture Hear it enigma Hear it sluggish Hear it glacial Hear it windswept Hear it subterranean Hear it conspicuous Hear it inferno Hear it meager Hear it parched Hear it elusive Hear it luminous Hear it aloft
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9781895565706

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