Journey Through Our Solar System
Author: Mae Jemison
Publisher: C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531240618
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The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
Author: Mike Vago
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1615197788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)! Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to! It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale. At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .
Journey Through the Solar System
Author: Simon Abbott
Publisher: TickTock Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848989269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn amazing, fun and fact-packed journey through the solar system! Take the ride of your life through the Solar System with Children's artist Simon Abbott. Discover all the incredible planets and more with our intrepid astronauts and spectacular pioneering spacecraft. With space words, fun facts and dazzling cartoon illustrations, this is an entertaining introduction to the Solar System for kids. How many years would it take to walk to Mars? How long would it take to drive across on of Saturn's rings? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this brilliant book explaining the hows and whys of the solar system. Packed with laugh-out-loud illustrations, this lively new range from Simon Abbott is a must for every young reader's bookshelf!
The Planets
Author: Giles Sparrow
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847246318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor millennia the planets have fascinated mankind. But only in the last 40 years have those wandering points of light in the night sky been revealed in all their glory, unmasked by a fleet of satellites and interplanetary probes: Cassini, Deep Space I, Galileo, Hubble Space Telescope, Magellan, Mariner, Mars Global Surveyor, NEAR Shoemaker, Stardust, SOHO, TRACE, Viking, and Voyagers I & II, to name but a few. And the closer we look, the more wonderful they are: Venus' clouds are laced with sulphuric acid; water once flowed over Mars' deserts; on Jupiter wind speeds reach 10,000 kph (6,000 mph) and storms rage for centuries; Saturn is surrounded by a swarm of 34 moons; and diamonds rain from Neptune's skies.Moving out from the Sun, every planet and moon is visited in a journey that takes us a full light year out into space, to the very fringes of the solar system where the Sun is no longer the brightest star in the sky. With nearly 200 spectacular images, The Planets follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of the Hugyens probe, smashes into a comet with Deep Impact, and discovers the frozen planets that lurk at the edge of our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune.
A Journey Through The Universe:
Author: New Scientist
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1473670454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space. Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. As you travel through the void between galaxies your spaceship encounters nothing more exciting than the odd hydrogen molecule. But when it does come across something more exotic: wow! First and most obviously, stars and planets. Some are familiar from our own backyard: yellow suns, rocky planets like Mars, gas and ice giants like Jupiter and Neptune. But there are many more: giant stars, red and white dwarfs, super-earths and hot Jupiters. Elsewhere are swirling clouds of dust giving birth to stars, and infinitely dense regions of space-time called black holes. These clump together in the star clusters we call galaxies, and the clusters of galaxies we call... galaxy clusters. And that is just the start. As we travel further we encounter ever more weird, wonderful and dangerous entities: supernovas, supermassive black holes, quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, black dwarfs, quark stars, gamma ray bursts and cosmic strings. A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. As for the end of the journey - nobody knows. But getting there will be fun.
Journey Through Our Solar System (Set)
Author: Various
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781534522107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders are sure to enjoy this fascinating look at the celestial bodies that make up our solar system. They will learn about each of the eight planets, as well as Earth's moon, asteroids, and dwarf planets such as Pluto. Each volume presents readers with fun facts about different parts of our solar system. Full-color photographs provide an astronaut's view of outer space as readers take their own journey through our solar system.
Voyage Through Space
Author: Ian Graham
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764160622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the sun, planets, moons, and other elements of our solar system; describes the stars and galaxies; and details human exploration of space.
A Journey Through Space
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609928285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a journey from your doorstep into outer space! Zoom through the Solar System, discovering satellites, comets and asteroids along the way. Explore craters on Mars, moon-hop around Jupiter, and get a close-up view of Saturn's amazing rings. Just don't travel too close to the Sun! Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing universe, this book is perfect for a parent and child to read together or to explore independently. Includes a dust jacket that doubles up as a poster.
Journey Through Our Solar System (Set)
Author: Various
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781534522121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders are sure to enjoy this fascinating look at the celestial bodies that make up our solar system. They will learn about each of the eight planets, as well as Earth's moon, asteroids, and dwarf planets such as Pluto. Each volume presents readers with fun facts about different parts of our solar system. Full-color photographs provide an astronaut's view of outer space as readers take their own journey through our solar system.
Future Genius: Solar System
Author: Editors of Happy Fox Books
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1637412649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet ready for lift-off and journey through outer space with Future Genius: The Solar System! Explore our cosmic backyard through awesome videos, brain teasers, quizzes, experiments, puzzles, sudoku, and so much more. Also included are amazing pictures and illustrations, plus video QR codes for an interactive learning experience that brings the page to life! You’ll get up close and personal with all of the planets in the solar system – from Mercury, the fastest planet around our sun, to the giant planet of Jupiter and its massive storms. Discover how our solar system was born and design your own spacecraft to travel to one of the coldest worlds in the known universe. An out-of-this world activity book for kids, Future Genius: The Solar System is one of the most fascinating and engaging space books available today that kids will love!
