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The Cambridge guide to the solar system

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Cambridge University Press, 2003 - Science - 452 pages
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System provides a comprehensive, funamental, and up-to-date description of the solar system. It is written in a concise, light and uniform style, without being unnecessarily weighted down with specialized materials or the variable writing of multiple authors. It is filled with vital facts and information for astronomers of all types and for anyone with a scientific interest in the Earth, our Moon, all the other planets and their satellites, and related topics such as asteroids, comets, meteorites and meteors. The language, style, ideas and profuse illustrations will attract the general reader as well as professionals. A thorough report for general readers, it includes much compact reference data. Metaphors, similes and analogies will be of immense help to the lay person or non-science student, and they add to the enjoyment of the material. Vignettes containing historical, literary and even artistic material make this book unusual and interesting, and enhance its scientific content. Kenneth Lang is professor of astronomy in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University. He is the author of several astrophysics books, including The Sun from Space (Springer Verlag, 2000), Astrophysical Formulae: Radiation, Gas Processes, and High Energy Physics (Springer Verlag, 1999), Sun, Earth and Sky (Copernicus Books, 1997), Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars (Springer Verlag, 1993), and Wanderers in Space: Exploration and Discovery in the Solar System (Cambridge, 1991),
  

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User Review  - James - Goodreads

A nice reference, well organized and thorough. This is interesting to browse and handy when some topic comes up - we were watching a Science Channel documentary that mentioned the Kuiper Belt, wanted ... Read full review

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User Review - Goodreads

Great refernce for all the planets and other features of our solar system.Tonnes of inforamtion for anybody interested in the planets and our solar system. There is quite a lot of inforamtion but for ...

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Contents

The new closeup view from space
36
The invisible buffer zone with space atmospheres magnetospheres
73
The inner system rocky worlds
106
stepping stone to the planets
156
a dense battered world
193
the veiled planet
208
the red planet
235
The giant planets their satellites and their rings worlds
286
lord of the rings
316
Uranus and Neptune
337
Remnants of creation small worlds in the solar system
358
Asteroids and meteorites
384
Colliding worlds
410
Further reading
430
Directory of web sites
436
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Common terms and phrases

Apollo asteroid belt asteroids astronomers atmosphere atoms axis belt billion years ago bright carbon dioxide clouds collision comet Comet Halley contain core cosmic Courtesy of NASA crust dark detected distance dust Earth energy equatorial Europa flows formed Galileo Galileo spacecraft Ganymede gases giant planets gravitational heat helium highlands hydrogen impact craters inside Jupiter Jupiter's kelvin kilograms kilometers Kuiper belt lava layer liquid water located lunar magnetic field magnetosphere Mars Mars Global Surveyor Martian mass density material Mercury meteorites meters methane molecules molten Moon Moon's motion move NASA Neptune objects ocean orbital period outer oxygen ozone particles percent planetary polar cap poles pressure produce radar radiation radio radius regions rings rock rotation satellite Saturn Section solar system solar wind space spacecraft stars Sun's sunlight surface telescope temperature terrain terrestrial tidal Titan Uranus and Neptune vapor Venus volcanoes Voyager water ice wavelengths

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The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
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(2003); and Kenneth R. Lang, The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System (2003). David A. Rothery, Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in Their Own Right, ...
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Solar System Trading Cards -- Grab Bag
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About the author (2003)

Professor Lang is an award-winning astronomy and planetary science writer, having published ten books which have been translated into seven languages.

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TitleThe Cambridge guide to the solar system
AuthorKenneth R. Lang
Editionillustrated
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN0521813069, 9780521813068
Length452 pages
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