The Space Traveller’s Guide: The Outer Planets

Description

Top tips for space travellers! Get to know the outer planets of your solar system in this up-close tour of key cosmic destinations.

The Space Traveller”s Guide: The Outer Planets is a personal tour of the gassy and icy planets furthest from the Sun – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – plus a pit-stop among the comets, several amazing moons and even a look beyond the planets to the Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud and of course the dwarf planets! Learn the unmissable formations at each location, from Saturn”s Dragon Storm to the snow-spewing geysers on the surface of the moon Enceladus. Includes ”Traveller”s Tips” for surviving extreme conditions in each spot, and don”t miss the real-life tour photos at the back!

The Space Traveller”s Guide series is the perfect one-stop-shop for space lovers, brought to you by expert astronomy and physics author Giles Sparrow. It includes astounding facts to inspire young space-travel hopefuls, plus humorous cartoons to draw them through the pages, and presents key science learning in an accessible format for readers aged 9 and up.

Contents list, The Outer Planets: The outer solar system / Jupiter / Io / Europa / Ganymede and Callisto / Saturn / Ringed wonder / Saturn”s moons / Uranus / Neptune / Comets / Beyond the planets / Tour snapshots / Glossary / Resources / Index

The series includes: Earth and the Inner Planets, The Outer Planets, The Sun and Stars and Space Exploration