Exploring the Solar System

by Nicholas Booth

Book Overview

Exploring the Solar System chronicles more than three decades of planetary exploration, revealing the Solar System in all its colourful glory. At one time, the planets and moons of our Solar System... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521580056
• ISBN13: 9780521580052
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

Exploring the Solar System

Outstanding pictures from decades of space research are the main feature of this book. The lively text avoids numbers and math, sometimes using factoids rather than numerical values. The illustrations include actual pictures and computer enhanced or artist conceptions of various space missions. The text is dotted with interesting historical tidbits about those missions and the people involved. But the real reason to get this book is for the wonderful illustrations. The printing quality and color reproductions are outstanding.