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Author Buratti, Bonnie Jean, 1952- author.

Title Worlds fantastic, worlds familiar : a guided tour of the solar system / Bonnie J. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations
Contents Mercury : the hottest little place -- Venus : an even hotter place -- Mars : the abode of life? -- Asteroids and comets : sweat the small stuff -- Galileo's treasures : worlds of fire and ice -- Enceladus : an active iceball in space -- Titan : an Earth in deep freeze? -- Iapetus and its friends : the weirdest "planets" in the solar system -- Pluto : the first view of the "third zone" -- Earths above : the search for exoplanets and life in the universe
Summary A senior planetary astronomer leads this personal tour of NASA's latest Solar System discoveries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 6, 2017)
Subject Astrogeology -- Popular works
Planetary science -- Popular works
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Astrogeology
Planetary science
Planet
SUBJECT Solar system -- Popular works
Subject Solar system
Sonnensystem
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
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