Earth is one of the four rocky inner planets. Scientists have been studying Earth’s neighbors since ancient astronomers traced their paths in the night sky and named them after gods. Today, we know much more about the rocky planets thanks to modern telescopes and space probes. This volume presents a close-up look at the solar system’s rockiest planets in a fun and exciting way. Readers will be amazed with the images of our nearest solar neighbors, and colorful diagrams help aid comprehension.
Earth is one of the four rocky inner planets. Scientists have been studying Earth’s neighbors since ancient astronomers traced their paths in the night sky and named them after gods. Today, we know much more about the rocky planets thanks to modern telescopes and space probes. This volume presents a close-up look at the solar system’s rockiest planets in a fun and exciting way. Readers will be amazed with the images of our nearest solar neighbors, and colorful diagrams help aid comprehension.
You might think that Earth is a big planet, but it’s nothing compared to our solar system’s gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jupiter itself could hold 1,300 Earths! With their beautiful colors, many moons, and planetary rings, the gas giants are some of the most fascinating space topics for readers to explore. The manageable text, aligned to the science curriculum, is made more accessible by the inclusion of amazing images, diagrams, and graphic organizers.
Most asteroids come from a “belt” that orbits the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Comets are born in the frozen reaches beyond Neptune. Both are remnants leftover from the birth of our solar system billions of years ago. Readers will be amazed to learn all about these fascinating space rocks. The scientific text is paired with stunning photographs and illustrations of cosmic forces at work. A detailed graphic organizer provides a convenient study guide for comparing and contrasting comets and asteroids.
Mars is known as the Red Planet. It is the fourth planet from the Sun and the only planet where humans have landed rovers. From the biggest volcano in the solar system to ancient riverbeds, learn why scientists are so interested in the Red Planet.
This picture book is a great teaching tool for your little one and for you. It is like illustrated encyclopedia of planets for every kid. The pictures are clear and the colors are nice. If you are ready to challenge your mind and prove to everyone that you are the king of planets knowledge, then pick up this book and prepare for the ultimate trivia experience. Test your fact knowledge as you look at some of the most captivating facts about planets of our Sun's System. Do you know that? The nine planets are the most important members of the Sun's System. In order of distance from the Sun, they are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Plato. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are small rocky bodies. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are giants, made up mainly of gas. Pluto is tiny ball of rock and ice. The Sun is nearly ten times bigger across than Jupiter, and it could swallow more than a million Earths. Earth is bigger than four of the planets - nearby Venus, Mars and Mercury, and tiny distant Pluto. Jupiter is by far the largest of the planets and has more mass than all the other planets put together. Jupiter measure nearly 143 000 kilometers across, which is 11 times bigger than Earth. Even though Jupiter is so big, it takes less than 10 hours for it to spin round once: this means that its surface is spinning round at s speed of 45 000 km an hour. This is 30 times faster than Earth spins. Once it was thought that Saturn was the only planet that had rings around it because they were the only ones that can be seen through a telescope. Close-up photographs taken by the Voyager space probes have shown that the other three gas giants - Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - have rings too, but their rings are much thinner, narrower and darker than Saturn's. Ancient astronomers could only see five planets in the night sky until 1781. In this year was built a telescope powerful enough to spot Uranus. Uranus was the first of three "new" planets to be discovered after 1781. Neptune was discovered in 1846. Pluto was discovered in 1930. Saturn is surrounded by a set of bright, shining rings and when you look at the planet though a telescope it is very beautiful. Saturn is the lightest (last dense) of the planets. It is lighter even than water - if you could place it in a huge bowl of water, it would float. Pluto travels more than 7000 million kilometers away from the Sun. It takes nearly 248 Earth years to circle the Sun once. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. Mercury is the fastest-moving planet, whizzing round the Sun in just 88 days. Being close to the Sun, Mercury gets extremely hot. As you read this book over and over to your child it won't be long before they are the ones pointing to the picture and telling you what it is. The author Katy Gleit wrote this book for her own two grandchildren Dani and Deia: In "Planets: 100 Illustrated Fun Facts " your children are given a well-selected knowledge along with entertaining information about the planets of our Sun's System. In addition, a set of wonderful pictures show exactly what a planets looks like.
This classroom-tested book uses the Internet as a valuable resource to enrich the topics you already teach. Your students will gather up-to-the-minute information and explore relevant questions to complete 10 fun, reproducible scavenger hunts. The topics include Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Body, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Nine Planets, the Rainforest, Volcanoes, Whales, and the White House. Great for boosting research skills and making the most of time spent on the Internet! For use with Grades 4-8.
"Discusses the planet Uranus, including observations by ancient cultures, current knowledge of Uranus, and plans for future scientific research and space exploration"--
Heat Transport and Energetics of the Earth and Rocky Planets provides a better understanding of the interior of the Earth by addressing the processes related to the motion of heat in large bodies. By addressing issues such as the effect of self-gravitation on the thermal state of the Earth, the effect of length-scales on heat transport, important observations of Earth, and a comparison to the behavior of other rocky bodies, readers will find clearly delineated discussions on the thermal state and evolution of the Earth. Using a combination of fundamentals, new developments and scientific and mathematical principles, the book summarizes the state-of-the-art. This timely reference is an important resource for geophysicists, planetary scientists, geologists, geochemists, and seismologists to gain a better understanding of the interior, formation and evolution of planetary bodies. - Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the thermal evolution of large planetary bodies, including contributed chapters from leading experts - Includes relevant observations of Earth and large-scale heat transfer, a critical review of existing paradigms of the current thermal state of the Earth, and a discussion of heat flow on the other rocky planets - Covers macroscopic phenomena as they pertain to deciphering the thermal structure of planetary bodies
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
