Exploring Our Solar System

Ride, Sally; Tam O'Shaughnessy

ISBN 10: 0375812040 / ISBN 13: 9780375812040

Published by Crown Books for Young Readers, 2003

About this Item

Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Sally Ride "To Joe D*******". 1st ed/1st printing. Seller Inventory # 006529

Bibliographic Details

Title: Exploring Our Solar System

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Sally Ride became America’s first woman astronaut in 1983, and is now a professor of physics. Tam O’Shaughnessy is a professor of school psychology. Dr. Ride and Dr. O’Shaughnessy have been friends since childhood and have collaborated on three previous science books for children.