Exploring Our Solar System

Ride, Sally,O'Shaughnessy, Tam E.

ISBN 10: 0375912045 / ISBN 13: 9780375912047

Published by Crown Books for Young Readers, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Our Solar System
• Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375912045
• ISBN 13: 9780375912047
• Binding: library
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Enhanced with full color photos, the evolution of the solar system is examined and explored through scientific facts about the sun, the earth, and all the planets with a review of their past and present day composition, potential for sustaining living organisms, and more.

From the Inside Flap

Five billion years ago, a starship passing through our region of space would not have slowed down for a second look. There was nothing to see. No Earth, no sun, no solar system. Nothing but a huge tenuous cloud of gas.

Now, as the result of billions of years of evolution, and centuries of scientific research, we can chart our way through the solar system . . . with Sally Ride as our navigator. Starting from the sun and working outward, Sally Ride and Tam O?Shaughnessy take readers on a tour of the nine planets and explain the formation, current conditions, and possibility of life on each.

Filled with crisp, full-color photographs and lucid prose, this comprehensive volume untangles the complexities of space and allows readers to feel like masters of the universe.