Voyages to the planets / Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney Wolff.
Publisher: Belmont, CA : Thomson-Brooks/Cole, c2004Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv, 418 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 28 cm. +Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0534395678
- 523.2 F84 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents. Prologue: science and the universe: a brief tour -- 1 Observing the sky: the birth of astronomy -- 2 Orbits and gravity -- 3 Earth, moon and sky -- 4 Radiation and spectra -- 5 Astronomical instruments -- 6 Other worlds: an introduction to the solar system -- 7 Earth as a planet -- 8 Cratered worlds:t he Moon and Mercury -- 9 Earth-like planets: Venus and Mars -- 10 The giant planets -- 11 Rings, Moons, and Pluto -- 12 Comets and asteroids: debris of the solar system -- 13 Cosmic samples and the origin of planetary systems -- 14 The Sun: a garden-variety star -- 15 Life in the universe.
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