Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities

Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities book cover
Acknowledg ments This book wouldn't have happened without the enthusiasm and support of editor and fellow space buff Jerome Pohlen thanks Jerry Photographer Tom Uhlman deserves many thanks for con tributing his always amazing photographs Thanks also to the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona for graciously supplying the photograph of Gerard Kuiper Note to Readers Today we know a lot about the planets moons comets and asteroids of our solar system But while humans have walked on the Moon we ve never set foot on any other planet So how do we know that Mars is covered in rusty dust and that yellow clouds float over Venus How did we take the temperature of the Sun and figure out what's inside comets That's what this book is all about It tells the story of how we discovered and learned what we know about our solar
Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities

Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities

Exploring the Solar System relates the rich history of space exploration using telescopes, satellites, probes, landers, and human missions

About This Book

By: Mary Kay Carson
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Published by: Chicago Review Press with IPG
10-12Age Range
6.9 AR
280Pages
EnvironmentSubject
1040LLexile
4-5 hoursReading Time
YGuided Reading
YFountas & Pinnell
70DRA