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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cambridge guide to the solar system
  title info:
    title: Guide to the solar system
  name:
    name part: Lang, Kenneth R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 475 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
  abstract: This work provides a description of the planets and their moons. The books begins with an introduction to the history of planetary observation and discovery. The major planets and their moons are then introduced by presenting common properties, processes, and themes. This is followed by chapters which focus on individual planets and other solar system objects, including a comprehensive treatment of the various space missions; from the Apollo missions to the Moon, to recent missions to Jupiter and Mars.
  table of contents: Changing views and fundamental concepts. Evolving perspectives : a historical prologue -- The new, close-up view from space -- Atmospheres, magnetospheres, and the solar wind -- The inner system : rocky worlds. Restless Earth : third rock from the Sun -- The Earth's moon : stepping stone to the planets -- Mercury : a dense battered world -- Venus : the veiled planet -- Mars : the red planet -- The giant planets, their satellites and their rings : worlds of liquid, ice and gas. Jupiter : a giant primitive planet -- Saturn : lord of the rings -- Uranus and Neptune -- Remnants of creation : small worlds in the solar system. Asteroids and meteorites -- Colliding worlds -- Comets -- Beyond Neptune -- Origin of the solar system and extra solar planets. Brave new worlds.
  note: Kenneth R. Lang.
  note: Previous edition: 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic: Solar system
  classification: QB501 .L24 2011
  classification: 523.2
  identifier: 9780521198578 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0521198577 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 100813
    record change date: 20151202121358.0
    record identifier: in00002669147