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The Outer Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Dwarf Planets

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Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Series
An Explorer's Guide to the Universe
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Our Search for knowledge about the universe has been remarkable, heartbreaking, fantastical, and inspiring, and this search is just beginning. The Outer Solar System is part of a 7 book series that takes readers through a virtual time warp of our discovery. From the nascent space programs of the 1960's to today's space tourism and the promise of distant planet colonization, readers will be transfixed. Throughout this journey of the mind, Earth-bound explorers gain keen insight into the celestial phenomena that have fascinated humans for centuries. Thrilling narratives about indefatigable scientific contributors and technological advances will rouse the imagination. Each book is lavished with photographs and illustrations that transport readers more deeply into the interstellar action.

✦ Subjects


Science, Nonfiction, JNF048000, SCI004000


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